John Egbert and Karkat Vantas are both beginner programmers attempting to learn this language (and doing very poorly). Either all programming languages in the Homestuck universe are similarly impenetrable, or they've made poor choices for beginner programming languages. Sollux Captor and Roxy Lalonde are two characters who are known to be good with this language; they are both noted as being skilled hackers. In certain object-oriented programming languages, most notably C++, the declarations of destructors—functions called when an object is destroyed—are prefixed with tildes.