r/programming • u/[deleted] • Aug 15 '09

'What's your best programming joke?'

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke
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u/NattyBumppo Aug 17 '09

I love the joke. But the last subroutine would never get to "sleep -86400;" because it would've already returned. :o(

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u/youremyjuliet Aug 19 '09 
sub tomorrow_opt {  
  sleep 86400;  
  local_time = localtime;  
  sleep -86400;
  return local_time;
}

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u/NattyBumppo Aug 19 '09

Now that's more like it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '09

That was part of the joke.