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Me;

I like describing C more along the lines of "Here's a grenade, be careful kiddo."

ChatGPT;

FP languages, in comparison, are like:

“Here’s a rubber duck. Don’t worry about grenades, we removed all weapons — just quack safely.”

Actually two, before that FP bit it said;

C isn’t just “trust me” — it’s here’s a grenade, and some instructions about how it works, now go blow yourself up carefully.

Me; >I like describing C more along the lines of "Here's a grenade, be careful kiddo." ChatGPT; >FP languages, in comparison, are like: > >>“Here’s a rubber duck. Don’t worry about grenades, we removed all weapons — just quack safely.” Actually two, before that FP bit it said; >C isn’t just “trust me” — it’s here’s a grenade, and some instructions about how it works, now go blow yourself up carefully.

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Yes, LLMs are excellent at correlations. I remember learning C. It was frustrating not understanding the difference between a pointer and a buffer. I actually had a mostly working app that did this all over. After I learned that pointers actually needed to "point" to something, things started working. Then was the slow memory leak. That was an absolute killer. It took a while to understand how to use malloc() and free() properly. The worst, though were the insidious bugs Microsoft had in the compiler.