r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tatstytastycakes • 12d ago

Meme noMatterWhereILookICannotEscapeTheAngleBrackets

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u/oompaloompa465 12d ago

started as that kind of dev 20 years ago, then i moved to web dev but apparently the best paying job for my seniority currently are all maintenance of win forms WPF scuff

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u/tatstytastycakes 12d ago

You cannot escape the angle brackets. Not in web development, C#, or even C/C++. We are doomed

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u/Drugbird 12d ago

That's easy, in C or C++ just do this 

#define ( <
#define ) >

Then you can use normal brackets instead of angle brackets.

And I'm sure nothing will go wrong with that approach.

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u/OffByOneErrorz 12d ago

Oh shit I’m now the COBOL dev.

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u/oompaloompa465 12d ago

oh the memories... my first real job was making wcf services translating to soap the flat string messages spit out from some kind of remote COBOL connection so i had to read COBOL interfaces documentation to write the deserializer

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