What is the point of the leg joke in C/C++?

Question

C++ / C#

What is the joke about legs in C/C++? It's like "shoot yourself in the knee? Can you elaborate?

Answer 1

"Shoot yourself in the foot" is an idiom in the English-speaking world, meaning hurting yourself with rash actions. C and C++ are low-level languages ​​enough to be able to do dangerous things. At the same time, the first one does not control the actions of the programmer at all and allows you to write any heresy, while the second has so many dark corners in which heresy can be done by accident that not everyone knows even specialists with decades of experience. These two combined factors turn programming in Xia and Pluses into making devices for shooting at one's own legs.

Answer 2

There is a book like this

In continuation of the fun https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/foot.htm

Answer 3

It's just that in the past, many people carried weapons, and the especially stupid ones forgot to put them on the fuses. Therefore, they could accidentally, holding a cannon in their hands, shoot. Well, since a person’s hands “hang” with their palms down, an accidental shot almost always flies in the foot of you or a person standing close by.

Answer 4

And at first it seemed to me that, they say, programming in C ++ you will get into such jungle that you will spend 2/3 of your life in an armchair at the monitor, and you will hardly need your legs. Well, if there are none at all, write in C, where do you go ))