C is a cool programming language where if you want to return a string from a function you have to set up an entire…

C is a cool programming language where if you want to return a string from a function you have to set up an entire physical-universe human social system for adjudicating who is responsible for freeing it

“In order to create a C string, you must first create civilization”

— mcc (@mcclure111) July 10, 2018

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