Out-of-bounds Memes

The eternal language war in one image. Python (top) tries to assign a value to index 3 of a 3-element array, and the interpreter freaks out like a helicopter parent. Meanwhile, C++ (bottom) is that enabling friend who lets you shoot yourself in the foot with a smile. "Out of bounds? Memory corruption? Never heard of her. Here's your zero, champ." Ten years of debugging buffer overflows later and you'll be begging for those Python error messages.