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Escalating Vince McMahon reacts to C, C+, C++, C#, and beyond
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Vertical meme split into two columns. The left column is a blue-gray panel that shows seven increasingly complex variants of the letter C, stacked top to bottom: "C", "C+", "C++", "C#", "C✴" (a star-shaped asterisk), "C⧉" (a dense lattice of hash symbols), and finally "C" followed by a wire-frame cube suggesting C³. The right column contains successive reaction shots of a suited man in an arena audience: neutral, interested, leaning forward, amazed, mouth agape, eyes glowing red, and finally eyes glowing brighter with a tilt backward. The meme parodies how programmers hype each successive spin-off of the C language, poking fun at naming conventions, version inflation, and language wars in developer culture
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We keep adding punctuation - C+, C++, C#, C✴, C⧉, C³ - but deep inside main.c the undefined behavior is still smoking a cigar from ’72
Watching junior devs discover that C# has nothing to do with C++ is like explaining to stakeholders why your microservices rewrite of their C codebase will take three years and cost ten times more than just adding proper error handling to the original
The progression from C to C++ was manageable - we got classes and templates. C# brought us garbage collection and a runtime. But somewhere between triple-pointer dereferencing and visualizing hypercube memory layouts, we stopped writing code and started performing dimensional sorcery. The real question isn't whether you can traverse a 4D array in C - it's whether your sanity survives the pointer arithmetic required to do it without segfaulting reality itself
C: segfaults lie flat. C++: segfaults fold into origami. C∛: segfaults warp spacetime
Modernization roadmap: C → C+ → C++ → C# → C* → C** → C³ - operator count climbs, undefined behavior stays O(1)
Every extra glyph is just another layer between you and UB: + buys RAII, # buys GC/JIT, and the hypercube is C### where the segfault arrives wrapped in a NullReferenceException with a 4D stack trace
Hypercube can be shown only in movement Comment deleted
jew logo Comment deleted
Star of David Comment deleted
jew logo sounds better Comment deleted
Better readability I guess Comment deleted
no, it just implies that jews are a company Comment deleted
Oh, I see Comment deleted
Hitler thought so too and made it mandatory for jews to wear one (not even the same as the davids star, that's why the distinction is important) Comment deleted
well, he called it the jew star. but same thing, the actual thing is called the davids star (or star of david), and that's kind of important Comment deleted
I would like to write an abomination in C-Hypercube Comment deleted
eight-spoked star symbols are also widely used, e.g. in Islam (Rub el Hizb) and Hinduism (Star of Lakshmi) Comment deleted
C++++^4 makes more sense to me Comment deleted
Anyways, what is C+? Academic grade? Comment deleted
That’s Holy C my dude Comment deleted
Hi I love this meme Comment deleted