Undefined behavior Memes

Oh look, it's the increment operator hierarchy in its natural habitat. While you're over there manually adding 2 to your variable like some kind of cave person ( i=i+2 ), I'm elegantly pre-incrementing and post-incrementing in a single expression ( ++i++ ). Sure, it's undefined behavior that will make senior devs cry blood and crash in production, but hey—my code is three characters shorter! Nothing says "technical superiority" like writing code that requires a compiler exorcism.

Ah, the infamous "Keith the Rat" - C++'s unofficial mascot that perfectly embodies memory management in the language. Just like Keith is missing a limb, your program is probably missing proper pointer cleanup. The joke satirizes C++'s reputation for being powerful yet dangerous - where one wrong move with pointers can blow your application's leg clean off. And much like this diseased rodent, legacy C++ codebases often carry the infections of technical debt that nobody wants to touch. The attribution to Richard Stallman adds an extra layer of programming in-joke, as he's the GNU/free software crusader who would absolutely hate being associated with this monstrosity. Memory leaks, undefined behavior, and segmentation faults send their regards!

Spend just a few minutes with C++ and you'll collect the complete trilogy: depression from memory leaks, violent rage from undefined behavior, and suicidal thoughts from template errors. The best part? You don't even need years of experience—these treasures are available to you within the first hour of compiling. And yet we keep coming back for more punishment because nothing says "real programmer" like manually managing your own memory while crying.