(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)
I used to own one less-feminine one, for the winters, but they became obsolete thanks to global warming.
I never knew about this until my non-programming partner asked what I thought about them.
I need to buy new once. But am boycotting USA so its hard finding some
I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.
Eh, who is still using paper books to learn programming languages? Every popular language has a website with online manuals.
Well, except C, because it’s crammed together with C++ on https://cplusplus.com/ and https://cppreference.com/
And socks just grow organically after 3 years of coding.
I thought the books were for your shelf tbh. You put one for each language you claim proficiency in.
It’s cool to have niche older books though. My friend has a programming manual in Estonian from either the very late soviet era that includes BASIC, Pascal and FORTRAN. Though apparently you can still buy it online. There’s one copy left at an online bookstore.
The book is to get your monitor to an ergonomic height!
Programming socks memes are always welcome here.
PowerfulTurtle and (Not) BurningTurtle meetup
Until BurningTurtle comes to the meetup.
All 3 of the Turtles are together it seems.
Well 2 of me, but still.
Are three lettuce heads enough for you?
Accurate
Turtles are great computer science animals. They do graphics, and have shell access.
Meanwhile I’ll stick with my tree, it has root access.
Memes?
:@
I know that the company Functional Software brought out some Functional Sockware, I wore them for years.
Quite frankly I wouldn’t recommend learning C these days except for maintaining, there are better languages e.g Rust, Go, Zig, Swift. And the Eu and US are cracking down on unsafe Code including open source.
learn C, so you can appreciate rust
Agreed, I only found one of these with the C book in it. I think it would make much more sense with the Rust book.
According to kittenzrulz123, you need a chocker and a skirt to go with the Rust book.
Also, some specific ThinkPad apparently. Guess my R52 won’t do.
A-ha, better languages my ass. They may make some specific job easier, but calling them good just because of that - nuh-uh. I would (and actually will) rather spend time learning to properly use C or C++
I call them better because C leave security holes in everything it touches.
Nothing a Valgrind pass can’t solve. A surprisingly number of developers I’ve met have never heard of this tool, surprisingly, which is probably one of the reasons why people advocate for Rust. Can’t really protect against developer ignorance without a strict language.
So, not the programmers do this, lol?
Doesn’t matter, the Eu and US and others will make it irrelevant before anyone new has a chance to learn it.
I like your optimism (really mean this)
And good luck to them (sarcasm)
security holes
They are called easter eggs and they are a feature.
Some socks have horrible return times
Do you not?
I do almost all the time. I think I wear programming socks more than I wear regular socks.
Socks? Check. Skirt? Check. Vape pen? Check.
It’s study time.
If you need to learn C, at least use the first edition of the book - the one without the ANSI additions is much smaller.
I’'ve actually never read the second/and edition so I can’t say if it is good or not. I can tell you that the first edition still has a proud space on my bookshielf though the acid paper is starting to take a toll and I suspect it won’t be long and I’ll be needing a reprint.
It’s also a very good introduction to programming, and just a good read. Probably the best book about programming I’ve ever read.
Doesn’t the first edition use K&R style parameter lists and other no-longer-correct syntax?
My prof called K&R C “Knall und Rauch C”, “bang and smoke C”. Also: C lattice fence.
I haven’t read either, honestly Rust is so much better than C or C++ and if I were going to learn a low level language I’d probably go with that instead. Currently I only do Python and a tiny bit of Javascript.
This Rust talk sounds exactly like Java in the 2000. It’s the language of the future!! Rust is good though but only time will tell if rust will replace C/C++ which I doubt.
As a long time C/C++ developer, I think it has a lot of really great ideas. The one thing preventing me from using it a lot more is that there is no stable ABI that would allow to use shared libraries in Rust - everything is statically linked, and if I use the same crates in a number of programs, the same code exists in each of these programs. That is not really a good thing whne you try to develop for a system with very limited space and where program load times make a difference, such as for certain embedded platforms.
But honestly, Rust support in the Linux kernel? Java never got that far, nor any other language (apart from C, obviously).
C/C++ oldtimer myself, yep Rust is basically C++ template metaprogramming. So Rust does this thing way better, but as you says it does other things less good. Exactly like Java with the facility to run on different platforms (well, sort of) for example.
C/C++ is hard because it’s the ultimate multi tool!
I use Python BTW when I don’t need the fancy stuff, maybe the death of C/C++ will be that of a thousand cuts, one specialised language for each specific C/C++ use …
I dare assume you get downvoted for liking Rust, so take my upvote for balance. We differ about what we think of the language, but this kind of angry downvoting is plain ridiculous
Probably moreso for expressing the opinion that strongly without actually knowing any of the three languages.
Did socks replace rubber ducks?
If you have the socks you don’t need the ducks
I pulled on a str and unraveled my C socks!
I just wish they would just admit it already and good programmers wear compression socks. Helps with blood flow and reduces issues with sitting. It you want a nice pattern to each their own.
