I think the confusion comes from this not exactly being a positive thing. It reads almost like a new driver saying, "Thank God I finally got my first speeding ticket!"

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did my first "that one thing where you park and want to press breaks but press gas instead by accident."

Gen-x likes to call it "right of passage."

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Learn some C you whippersnapper! You ain't gonna become a proper programmer unless you understand your basic low level concepts well!

The youth nowadays, always hiding behind abstractions of abstractions that 90% of the time are just C wrappers anyway /j

(written by an early 20s PHP dev LOL. Although I do plan on learning C quite a bit before I move to C++ and ultimately Rust)

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're not a "real" programmer unless you started with FORTRAN :p

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Pfft compilers. Just use assembler.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Fortran