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Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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post #124

Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did come up with algorithms.

mildly interestingly, the word "algorithm" is actually someone's name, mangled:

> 1690s, "Arabic system of computation," from French algorithme, refashioned (under mistaken connection with Greek arithmos "number") from Old French algorisme "the Arabic numeral system" (13c.), from Medieval Latin algorismus, a mangled transliteration of Arabic al-Khwarizmi "native of Khwarazm" (modern Khiva in Uzbekistan), surname of the mathematician whose works introduced sophisticated mathematics to the West (see algebra). - https://www.etymonline.com/word/algorithm

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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I'm a firefighter programmer and I liked this one.

For a moment there I thought you were the other firefighter programmer I know.

I think there are about 4 of us on HN that are current or former firefighters (in the literal sense).

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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Two strings walk into a bar. One of them immediately greets the bar tender and says, "I would like a pint of stout ale!$@%))34#,,3..."

The other string, seeing at how the bartender is taken aback by the unexpected barrage of abuse, hastens to apologize: "You have to excuse my friend; he's not properly null terminated".

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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post #625

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's... not another variant of that joke?

One is about "Or" statements and the other is about "And" statements. All three logisticians needs to be "true/yes" and the first one didn't know about the two others so the logistician says "I don't know". If he didn't wanted dessert, he would have said "no". Same thing for the second logistician. The last logistician was able to say "yes, we would." because none of the other logistician said "no". Therefore, they a…

Still not a variant of the former joke. The latter is about the meaning of "or" in a logic or coding context vs its meaning in human languages.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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post #687

Three logisticians just finished dinner, and the waitress comes up and asks "do y'all want dessert?" The first logistician says "I don't know." The second also says "I don't know." The last says "yes, we would."

The first two logisticians, each being a flawed human capable of error, might have answered "I don't know" despite not wanting dessert.

Obviously the third one has a flaw of not being able to see flaws in other people.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

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post #434
post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... (continued): The bartender gives him a puzzled look and says, "I didn't get it", to which the programmer responds "To understand recursion you must first understand recursion."

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

I think the origins of the joke is the Jargon File: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/recursion.html
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