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by Filligree 4911 days ago
##C on freenode?
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For sharpening your axe ##C is amazing, but beginners are regularly mocked and burned at the stake there.

> "How do I allocate a string?"

> "But what is a string?"

> "You know that thing with letters in it. Seriously how do I allocate a string?"

> "Sorry we don't know what a string is, you'll need to define it for us first"

> "OK it's a contiguous chunk of bytes in RAM"

> "Sorry C has no concept of bytes or RAM."

That kind of impractical nonsense.

In C, there is no stack.
##c is perhaps the most infamously caustic active channel on any IRC network today. Fun, if that's what you are into.
I figured it was just one guy who is so awful. It's more than one person?
To be honest I haven't been there for more than a year, but I remember it being a cumulative effect.