computer science classes shouldn't make you write a memory allocator because you'll ever need to write a memory allocator, computer science classes should make you write a memory allocator so you understand what a ridiculously fucking expensive operation memory allocation can be
yes, i am literally the crying libertarian in this meme, the thing i am exactly that mad about is garbage collection teaching people that malloc is a free operation
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Yeah, in my C/C++ days we virtually had the costs of memory management beaten into us. Java/C# make that all seem easy right up until it isn't.
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I never got that impression, but then again my first serious language was C. Whoever teaches this pedagogy needs to reorder some things.
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