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There's dozens of people who would get it... DOZENS!

Uses C++. Shortly after:

I've made a huge mistake.

Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a developer, I have advised... a number of people to explore "modern C++," where everything is RAII, and you never have to write `new` or `delete`.

Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?

Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... but it might work for us.

According to the TIOBE index, C++ is the fourth most popular programming language, and has been around for over 35 years, so easily a couple thousand people. The question is how many of them are on HN (probably dozens).

Either you did not get the joke, or I did not get your joke.

I mean, estimating that there are a couple thousand c++ developers is pretty funny.

It's number one in the TIOBIAS index, though.

yes, I would have thought the "better" version would be

  int tobias[24]; 
  delete tobias;

I'll be honest, I didn't get it at first. I thought initially that it was too complex for the teaching example. And then it clicked. You're rather smart aren't you! I guess 24, or 36, or 48 would have worked!

Yeah, I was thinking the number of never-nudes in the world might closer to 2 dozen than 3 or 4 dozen, but I don't really know!

Hey brother! I always love a good quote back. I've occasionally had a 'there are dozens of us' response in the training room or remote chat. Always makes me smile.

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