Learn The Language First

Description

A black-and-white biblical comic meme says at the top, "Most people rejected His message." A figure representing Jesus has a speech bubble reading, "if you actually learn the language properly and read the reference you won't have as many bugs and won't need stackoverflow," while the crowd replies, "Shut up!" The crowd is labeled "SOFTWARE ENGINEERS," and the bottom caption says, "They hated Jesus because He told them the truth. Gal. 4:16." The joke targets developers who cargo-cult snippets from Stack Overflow instead of understanding language semantics, standard references, and the root causes of their bugs.

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Stackoverflow StackOverflowDependence LearningCurve LanguageFeatures BugsInSoftware CodingPractices BestPractices TechnicalDocumentation DeveloperSelfDeprecation DeveloperHumor RelatableDevExperience

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every copied answer is a tiny dependency with no changelog and a maintainer named "accepted in 2014."

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Every copied answer is a tiny dependency with no changelog and a maintainer named "accepted in 2014."
@InnerTempest 5y

End of week is not an excuse to stop posting memes
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  There is no plans to do so! Even sleep isn’t an excuse ;)
Deleted Account 5y

Bullshit
Deleted Account 5y

Thats the way i like it
@tokimonatakanimekat 5y

Yeah, knowing language definitely helps with million possible compatibility problems when setting up environment