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One of my favourite april fool's jokes in tech: https://arne-mertz.de/2018/04/raw-pointers-are-gone/ https://arne-mertz.de/2018/04/raw-pointers-are-gone/ It ac
by spacechild1 5y ago
One of my favourite april fool's jokes in tech: https://arne-mertz.de/2018/04/raw-pointers-are-gone/ https://arne-mertz.de/2018/04/raw-pointers-are-gone/
It actually made it to the HN front page and people had a hard time deciding whether this was a joke or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727441
- adamgordonbell 5y agoThat is a great one. I think the best jokes are hard to tell if they are real or not and have a sort of self-awareness about them. This one seems to have that. It pokes fun at how the C++ standards committee is trying to make C++ something different than it was, at any cost.