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A wife tells her programmer husband: “Go to the store and buy a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get six.”

He comes back with six gallons of milk. When she asks why, he replies: “They had eggs".

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[-] Australis13@fedia.io 23 points 3 months ago

He's safe if he works in MATLAB or other languages that use one-based indexing. He's a dead man if she works out most lists are zero-based.

[-] lambipapp@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I work in Lua. I always start my tables on 'dinosaur'

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

He'll make sure until death that his wife doesn't figure that out.

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