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> I wonder if this is a factor for the decline in software quality Jonathan Blow talks about in his video. Wouldn't hold my breath; I recall a tangent on progr
by hayley-patton 4y ago
> I wonder if this is a factor for the decline in software quality Jonathan Blow talks about in his video.
Wouldn't hold my breath; I recall a tangent on programmers being "afraid of pointers". Depending on your favourite not-C-pointer way of managing memory, that's saying that use-after-free bugs are a sign of bad programmers, or shunning substructural/region/etc types for verifying that explicit memory management is correct.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago> I recall a tangent on programmers being "afraid of pointers" I've seen that too... It's pretty funny because in so many modern languages every reference is just a pointer we can't do arithmetic with.
- kelnos 4y agoI think when people say they are "afraid of pointers", they really mean they're afraid of manipulating pointers... that is, as you say, doing pointer math.