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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by GuB-42 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:17PM (#25053409)
Somehow reminds me of the "PLEASE" keyword in INTERCAL.

If you don't prefix enough of your instructions with PLEASE, the compiler will reject your program for not being polite enough, but doo it too much and your code will be rejected for being too polite. You have to find the right balance.

FYI, INTERCAL is one of the earliest and best known joke programming language.

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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by Buttons840 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:25PM (#25054526)
"If PLEASE was not encountered often enough, the program would be rejected; that is, ignored without explanation by the compiler. Too often and it would still be rejected, this time for sniveling. Combined with other words that are rarely used in programming languages but appear as statements in INTERCAL, the code reads like someone pleading."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

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