Can anyone explain the funny for me?
Pointers are variables that don’t hold data themselves but instead hold a reference to it. It’s really common to redirect pointers to reference something other than what they originally referenced, which is the joke in this comic. He is changing the conversation so that Star Wars actually refers to Jaws.
Mhm yes that’s what I understood, but I didn’t understans whats funny about this? What does “I’m your father” mean if the movie is jaws?
I think the humor is meant to be in the juxtaposition between “reference” in media contexts (e.g. “I am your father”) and “reference” in programming contexts and applying the latter context to the former one.
What does “I’m your father” mean if the movie is jaws?
I think the absurdity of that question is part of said humor. That being said, I didn’t find it funny either.
I personally don’t find it funny because these types of jokes essentially boil down to “I used a concept outside of its context, and for that reason alone it is funny”. However, with a lot of these jokes the context is so narrow (i.e. programming) that they are almost universally not understood by wider audiences.
I mean programmers is a pretty big audience. Sure this probably would pan at a comedy open mike night but it’s literally on programmer humor.
And using concept outside its normal concept or conflating two concepts is pretty standard humor.
Conflating two concepts can be funny (e.g. puns) but this isn’t that. “Dereferencing a movie ” has no meaning outside of manual memory management.
I understand humour is subjective but some jokes aren’t as strong as others (and some jokes aren’t jokes at all).
Referencing is the term that is being conflated.
Enough people apparently find this funny here. Not everyone needs to find every bit of comedy funny.
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