>company hires a Cnile unix zealot who fits every /g/ stereotype minus the thinkpad>start seeing bizarre code constructs in our codebase like large flat dynamically allocated arrays being treated as multidimensional through manually calculated pointer of

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▶Anonymous 07/24/20 (Fri) 22:51:21 No.1084634>>1084671 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>company hires a Cnile unix zealot who fits every /g/ stereotype minus the thinkpad

>start seeing bizarre code constructs in our codebase like large flat dynamically allocated arrays being treated as multidimensional through manually calculated pointer offset multiplication

>he does this with 4-D arrays as well and I find myself shuddering in awe and fear that I'll be tasked with maintaining his rube goldberg monstrosities if he ever quits

Don't hire C programmers.

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▶Anonymous 07/24/20 (Fri) 23:01:40 No.1084636>>1084641

>large flat dynamically allocated arrays being treated as multidimensional through manually calculated pointer offset multiplication

You dumb weeb have 10 seconds to tell me how that's a bad thing.

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▶Anonymous 07/25/20 (Sat) 04:05:31 No.1084641>>1084671

>>1084636

you should be writing a language where it's a flat array to begin with and just does the calculation for you.

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▶Anonymous 07/29/20 (Wed) 20:53:42 No.1084671

>>1084634 (OP)

>he does this with 4-D arrays as well and I find myself shuddering in awe and fear that I'll be tasked with maintaining his rube goldberg monstrosities if he ever quits

>he is irreplaceable

Smarter than you, wagecuck.

>>1084641

I don't understand it.

>you should be writing a language where it's a flat array to begin with

A C-array is flat.

>and just does the calculation for you.

Yeah, he could have made functions for interacting with the array but that comes with a performance penalty.

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