What is Code

Programmer jokes make you laugh and sigh at once.

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Ten is an order of magnitude in a discipline that uses orders of magnitude to estimate things.

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That’s Lisp in a nutshell; it gives you an incredibly consistent way to think in trees.

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A great way to do that is to wrap up your intentions in APIs and SDKs and IDEs.

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So how else might your code look?

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Comparison of Web application frameworks, which is a solid Wikipedia page.

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They asked for the logo to be bigger.

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You have to go and reload the Mailinator page and make a list and cross your fingers.

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It’s a language for places such as General Electric and Accenture.

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You can get a team started on a project in a few hours.

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Somehow it keeps working out.

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The Triumph of Middle Management

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Taking new languages out for a spin is a good thing for a programmer to do.

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He listened to them all.

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The text has all sorts of weird characters in it, strange bugs.

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Squares bumping into squares.

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Two people are dialed in, the new hires from Boston and Hungary, both with strong accents.

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Instagram was bootstrapped on it.

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A good thing.

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It was in K&R that Hello, world! became the canonical example program for any language.

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Java! Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers even announced a $100 million Java fund in 1996.