Lua Programmer Fears Zero

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A six-panel SpongeBob scene shows Patrick, Squidward, and SpongeBob with large white meme text over each frame. The text reads: "I'm a LUA programmer," "What does LUA programmer mean?" "It means he's scared of zero." "No it doesn't!" "Zero!" and finally "Stop it, Patrick, you're scaring him!" The technical joke is about Lua's conventional one-based array indexing, which makes zero feel unnatural compared with languages where arrays start at index 0. It turns an indexing convention into a literal fear response.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Lua does not have off-by-one bugs; it has everyone else being off by one.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Lua does not have off-by-one bugs; it has everyone else being off by one.
Deleted Account 5y

LUA
@Demiid2 5y

Zero!
1. @sylfn 5y
  
  that is 1 (0! = 1)
  
  @faultynepp 5y
  
  if there was no context i would be extremely confused by the 0!=1 hehe
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  is 0 == 1 ?
  
  @faultynepp 5y
  
  mathematically, i’m starting to question my existence.
  
  @pavloalpha 5y
  
  Lol, do u know what is the factorial of the number?
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  0 does not exist in Peano arithmetic
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  Or does it? *heavy VSauce music*
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  In what
@Agent1378 5y

They should have named it Luna
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  You forgot about Lupa
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  😄
  
  @lvanPetr0v 5y
  
  You mixed up, it should be Pupa
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  Pupa had his income instead of Lupa )))) XD))0)
  
  @BaalPeor 5y
  
  Yes, Pupa is going before Lupa
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  He(she?) should go after Lupa, so he goes za Lupoy (after Lupa)
  
  @arpanetus 5y
  
  dua zalupa
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  no, python + lua
2. @sylfn 5y
  
  they should havenamed it ルナ (runa)
3. @gDanix 5y
  
  HAHAHA I have GREAT news for you
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  I come here from page explaining that Lua is moon in Portuguese, so I already know🙂
4. @gizlu 5y
  
  Nula
@NoCountryForOldBuffet 5y

I’ve never messed with Lua before, what’s the joke here?
1. @codycode 5y
  
  in Lua arrays start at 1 not 0
  
  @NoCountryForOldBuffet 5y
  
  Lunacy
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Luacry
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  In good languages arrays starp with varname.first, end with varname.last and you iterate with nxt_idx:=varname(idx).next
  
  @gDanix 5y
  
  Excuse me!!, in good languages you don't iterate anything, you map the elements inside
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  Quite often this is very inefficient
@kirich_yo 5y

LUA
@NoCountryForOldBuffet 5y

Luacy
@faultynepp 5y

i am really confused at this stage.
Spongey 5y

scared of switches too
@pavloalpha 5y

Lua doesn't mean "LUA"?)
@lol123a10 5y

Lua is full name. LUA aka L.U.A., abbreviation.

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