Love that quote

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ndotb@programming.dev · 10 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Was it (2*b | ! 2*b) or (2*b || ! 2*b) ? It's been a while since I read his book

spi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

What is | I only know ||

msage@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y

It's a binary 'or' operator.

ndotb@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It's a logical or in some languages like cobol that were actively used during the early 17th century

spi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y

Oh yeah, I took the history of Cobol usage that one year should have remembered that

tinselpar@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 3y

Is this an SSL error I see before me? Methinks the server doth protest too much!

sisyphean@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y

A true classic

ruapho@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 3y

Don't know this one. Laughing harder than I want to 🤣

glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.org · 2 pts · 3y

Forsooth, this cipher speaketh not in tongues

Of men and servers of this era born;

Unknown and babbling, let this wretch be shunned

And do his SSL connexion scorn.