alxv

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1. 61.▲
   by alxv 18y ago

   Perhaps you are right that for most people the logo is meaningless. However, I find it looks like a fusion of >>= (Haskell's binding operator) and λ (the symbol of functional programming).
2. 62.▲
   by alxv 19y ago

   See? I read that both forms are translated to * (c + n), which explains the equivalence. Weird, no? Well, that surely is evil, yet perfectly valid C code. But personally, I don't find it surprising. Of course, you need to grok what A[n
3. 63.▲
   by alxv 19y ago

   And if you change your example only slightly, you can break again most-people's mental-model of pointers: #include <stdio.h> void fn(char *s) { printf("[%s]\n", s); } int main() { char *s;
4. 64.▲
   by alxv 19y ago

   You sound like someone who hasn't programmed much in a real-life scenario. Programming is far from being black and white as mathematics can be. From my own experience, programming is a mash of creative arts and psychology with a mathematics