Are three star programmers a real thing?

I can't imagine any situation where you would need 3 or more levels of indirection for a pointer.

int i = 0;
int *ip01 = &i;
int **ip02 = &ip01;
int ***ip03 = &ip02;
int ****ip04 = &ip03;
int *****ip05 = &ip04;
int ******ip06 = &ip05;
int *******ip07 = &ip06;
int ********ip08 = &ip07;
int *********ip09 = &ip08;
int **********ip10 = &ip09;
int ***********ip11 = &ip10;
int ************ip12 = &ip11;
************ip12 = 1; /* i = 1 */

>>13
Just look at yourself, You fucking armchair snotty stackexchange shitbags who, between reading Coding Horror!, flick over to /prog/ and try to make themselves feel superior by defending triple dereferencing.. Listen up you little fucking babies, I've been hacking down to the guts of these metal machines before you were born. I've written self modifying machine code so optimized it invented algorithms by itself that havent even been discover yet. I can CDR-code a lisp interpreter to the point that garbage collection is O(1). I designed an entire FORTH based operating system and implemented it in 1kb. I CHEW CPUS UP WITH MY TEETH. AND NEVER ONCE HAVE I DEREFERENCED MORE THAN THREE TIMES.