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Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

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Re: Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

#23
So, when a program fails it's oath... and it must be punished... I strongly suggest it be sent to purgatory (not deleted), for redemption is always possible.

This would make it possible for a programmer to redeem themselves.

Of course, you could probably do a git difference... but that's not as thematically consistent.

Re: Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It ends with: swear result >= 0 return result

Good to know that any sequence of non-negative numbers is the Fibonacci sequence.

Well, it is lying. The function name says so.

Re: Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

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if I put square_root("branch") what then? how you gonna punish me? cut my workload? raise my paycheck?

Careful, if there's no calling code left to delete it might just go after the programmer :-)

Haha, better know what you’re doing before you dare invoke ‘vigil -i’.
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