I see programmer memes on a daily basis that have something to

>>57939226
i think its just syntax in general

>>57939226
where did you get this 'meme' from? facebook?

>>57939260
Well, for the purposes of of this post, I Googled semi-colon memes, but this was a response to posts that I see nearly every day since I liked a whole bunch of programming pages. I figured exposing myself to more relevant material I could pull myself out of the lull I'm in, but it's been mostly toxic so far.

if you're not narrowing down the problem area via binary search, which for any size problem should only be a couple minutes, you are a shit programmer.

>>57939332
t. student

>>57939226
I think it's not about the lack of a semi-colon, but a badly place one that leads to a bug rather than a compilation error.

>>57939397
Think about how you can get fucked by a single typing error like :
> if( i = 0 )
drown in a big codebase.

File: Programmer-Memes-2-400x300.png (126KB, 400x300px) Image search: [Google]

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>>57939397
I didn't even consider that, actually. Still, it seems like a semi-colon that you don't want would almost always produce a compilation error. IDK, I'll stop bitching at least. lol

>>57939511
I can't find a good example, but here's a dumb one :

> while(stuff);
> doThing();

You'll do thing once, given stuff goes false.

>>57939511
your memes indeed seem to be from facebook.
Anyway, I use Vim and sometimes vi, I am mainly a C programmer, and to answer your question, no, I can't recall ever having a problem with a semicolon that I can track. Whenever I've missed a semicolon (and the syntax coloring in Vim doesn't do what you claim about VS) I usually do get the line where the error is.
I don't think it would be common for a runtime error to be triggered by a semicolon either, for semantic units are usually distinguishable enough from one another

foo(this) /* Compiler will immediately trigger this one */
bar(that);
int a 
b = 5;
/* Either you're referencing an undeclared variable or you're implicitly typecasting (which will trigger a warning at least) */
for (i = 0; i++ i<5) {
/* for constructs NEED two semicolons, so this is a syntax error too */

So far I can't find a way for a missing semicolon to go unnoticed.

>>57939418
I understand why people swear to Yoda conditions

if (0 = i) // compilation error
if (0 == i) // works fine

>>57939418
I'm pretty sure clang and gcc have warnings for this. I think they added it around a year or so ago.

>>57940094
Indeed, with -Wparentheses.

>>57939226
The million dollar bug.

Programmer and web dev are infected by people who don't know anything about the field, and don't care, except for the fact that it pays higher than whatever shit job they were at before. Their hope is to lie their ass off and be paid by some huge company and that they can just make excuses for 2-3 years before they finally realize they are worthless.

Other than that, you also see unemployables try to code in hipster "IDE"s or try to think they're better than you by not using one at all, or some 80s shit like emacs or vi/m. That is where you will also see 101 level mistakes about missing semicolons.

Basically OP, everybody else ITT and this whole board is fucking STUPID.

Two things:
1) Image macros ("memes") like OP's are lowest-common-denominator humor, and LCD humor is often exaggerated for effect.
2) People who laugh at "memes" are not only responding to the presented situation but also the sentiment behind it. In the OP example, the situation can be generalized to "A simple mistake held me back." Most people who see the meme have probably experienced that and can relate.

t. someone who unironically enjoys imgur

>>57939311
There's probably better, less memetic programming discussion on reddit to be honest, if not lobste.rs

You haven't posted any memes. Just pictures with words slapped on

It could be an exaggeration. Or it could be idiots who use sublime or vim with no linting.

>>57939226
if the debugger tools are so fucking good then why did it not just place the missing semicolon in the proper location for you?

>>57946031
Because that could possibly change the meaning of your program without you intending to.

The memes aren't about what they say on the tin. They're not trying to actually be relatable. They're subconsciously making vaguely relatable sound noises about programmery things like semicolons and braces and debuggers and shit in order to try to fit in with programmery people.

>>57939813
I like your taste in code senpai.

>>57946031
why not let the debugger write all the code?