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submitted 1 day ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 11 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago

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