Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!

256bits · Nov 17, 2022

what's funny about it was that Pascal was to be learning language, but so many people came out that Pascal morphed into one of the programming languages with which to write a serious program.

256bits · Nov 17, 2022

DrClaude said:

I wasn't talking about you (why would you have learned Pascal?), but referencing the chart you posted. BASIC was my first language, but I would think that many of those who learned programming in the 1970's and 1980's would have started with Pascal.

Vic 20 had Basic.
IBM came out with a Basic interpreter as part of its software package along with DOS if you bought an IBM PC.
Apple came out with Basic.

A lot of home learners acquired Basic as the language of choice by default.

jbriggs444 · Nov 18, 2022

DaveE said:

Can you show us the handshaking protocols?

The IP layer involves an unreliable datagram delivery service rather than a reliable connection oriented delivery service such as TCP. As such, handshaking is not necessary.

See RFC 1149 for IP over Avian Carriers, RFC 2549 for IP over Avian Carriers with QoS and RFC 6214 for the IPv6 update.

See RFC 791 for the Internet Protocol.

Of some interest is the scheme for weighted fair queuing and the danger of excessive logging.

From https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549:

Code:

Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) MAY be implemented using scales, as
   shown:

                                                  __
                                  _____/-----\   / o\
                                 <____   _____\_/    >--
                 +-----+              \ /    /______/
                 | 10g |               /|:||/
                 +-----+              /____/|
                 | 10g |                    |
                 +-----+          ..        X
               ===============================
                              ^
                              |
                          =========

   Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries, as shown on the
   scale.

Wrichik Basu · Nov 20, 2022

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jack action · Dec 5, 2022

jack action · Dec 5, 2022

Not really a joke but still funny:

Did you know that ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] evaluates to the string "10" in Javascript?

Wrichik Basu · Dec 5, 2022

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Ibix · Dec 5, 2022

jack action said:

Not really a joke but still funny

And/or horrifying. Yet strangely fascinating. I feel a bit like this is a prototype of the Enki virus from Snowcrash (Edit: Or was Inanna the virus and Enki the cure? Can't remember.)

jack action said:

Did you know that ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] evaluates to the string "10" in Javascript?

So, trying to work this out: +[] is a trick where an empty list is coerced into a zero, right? So it's ++[[]][0]+[0]. And the zeroth element of the first list is an empty list, so it's ++[]+[0]. Then the increment operator coerces the empty list to a zero and adds one to it, giving 1+[0] which then turns into a "10" via string concatenation for some reason...?