As a young kid interested in math and engineering, you’d never think that a misplaced semicolon, parentheses, or bracket could get you down so badly. The feeling of spending hours and hours on your beautifully crafted code can inspire pride. «Look at me,» you might think. «I’ve created an impeccable masterpiece that could never be replicated. This is better than anything in the MOMA, the Met, or the Louvre. I was sent to earth with the Midas touch, and baby, I’ve been getting my hands dirty.» But shortly after your confidence stint, you decide to run your code to find a devastating horror: it’s wholly unusable. It doesn’t work! You scroll fruitlessly through your code, finding misplaced parentheses and semicolons, but it’s too late. The damage is already done, and recovery is possible but very annoying. If that has ever happened to you, you’ll gobble up the following programming memes.