Even the compilers are in on some jokes: $ gcc -xc - : In function ‘main’: :1:45: error: ‘long long long’ is too long for GCC
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Retiring a favourite C++ joke
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Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#22There's dozens of people who would get it... DOZENS!
According to the TIOBE index, C++ is the fourth most popular programming language, and has been around for over 35 years, so easily a couple thousand people. The question is how many of them are on HN (probably dozens).
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#23My favorite C++ joke is this limerick that has been in the standard for a while:
When writing a specialization,
be careful about its location;
or to make it compile
will be such a trial
as to kindle its self-immolation.
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#24Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#25My favorite C++ joke is: Have you heard about the new object-oriented version of COBOL? It’s called “ADD 1 TO COBOL”
That's more like ++C. You need "ADD 1 TO COBOL RETURNING COBOL"... which elicits another C++ joke: that it would have been nice to get to use the better version, but someone used the wrong operator, so what we have is certainly complicated but probably just more of the same.
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#26Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#27 #include
using namespace std;
class BadProgrammer {
public:
void yep() {
delete this;
}
};
int main() {
auto x = BadProgrammer{};
x.yep();
cout clang++ -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic main.cc # also compiles just fine
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#28Do modern cars even allow you to step on the accelerator and the brake at the same time?
I certainly can in my 2019 86.
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#29There's dozens of people who would get it... DOZENS!
According to the TIOBE index, C++ is the fourth most popular programming language, and has been around for over 35 years, so easily a couple thousand people. The question is how many of them are on HN (probably dozens).
Either you did not get the joke, or I did not get your joke.
Re: Retiring a favourite C++ joke
#30There's dozens of people who would get it... DOZENS!
Uses C++. Shortly after: I've made a huge mistake.
Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a developer, I have advised... a number of people to explore "modern C++," where everything is RAII, and you never have to write `new` or `delete`.
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us.