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Rimu Mar 6, 2025

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

> I can’t believe nobody has done this list yet. I mean, there is one about names, one about time and many others on other topics, but not one abou…

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MyNameIsRichard Mar 6, 2025

Every language has words for yes and no.

Assuming yes and no means true and false, c has numbers (1, 0) for yes and no and c++ can use those numbers for yes and no because it is a superset of c.

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PumaStoleMyBluff Mar 6, 2025

The article is not about programming languages 🫠

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Björn Lindström

@PumaStoleMyBluff @MyNameIsRichard anyway let's do programming languages. Most don't have either. Shell has yes but not no, while Prolog has both yes and no, but just as results, not as values.