Post #3420229
2026-06-27 03:25 UTC
@0x4d6165@transfem.social the true reason of why this was done was because in C and older languages (and just the computer in general) you calculate the Nth element of a list by literally offsetting N cells from the first index
so the 0th index (aka no offset) is the first index, and so on
kind of how both of these are the same:
printf("%d\n", mem[5]);
printf("%d\n", *(mem+5));
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@0x4d6165@transfem.social 2026-06-27 03:42
@nelson@wetdry.world C and its consequences have been a disaster for computing /hj