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1. Razengan · 1789553405 · focus · HN ↗

   I said this in different ways before and got shoveled because of the way I said it:

   None of us know how to farm, not even the chefs who cook for us at a restaurant or fast food joint, but we eat every day and nobody's going around making people feel guilty about not knowing how to till soil and sow seeds..

   In programming and other creativity, most people's skills will [have to] change/evolve into managing, directing, dictating, knowing what you want, describing it, and focusing on the end product and iterating,

   instead of wrestling with why the f is a string a pointer to a pointer to a character

   just like we don't track the phases of the moon and seasonal rainfall before we can have a nice salad to eat.

   1. xeyownt · 1789556187 · focus · HN ↗

      In which language a string would be a pointer to a pointer to a character?

      Even in C, string literals are simply a sequence of null-terminated char, no pointer involved.

      1. BlueGreenMagick · 1789573953 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm being pedantic, but JavaScript string is often internally implemented using Ropes, which is arguably a pointer to a pointer to a character.

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