Http://Wiki.C2.Com/?ThreeStarProgrammer i was reading this and some other reddit meme/posts

Question

Http://Wiki.C2.Com/?ThreeStarProgrammer i was reading this and some other reddit meme/posts

insulting three star programming. but why is something like this
void function(type ***a);
caller()
{
type **a;
function(&a);
}
bad and something like this
type ** function()
caller()
{
type **a = function();
}
good?
I wanted to know because since introduction to linked list, i have always used an extra star to directly change the variable after allocation/deallocation to avoid the sentinel node special case handling.