If-then-else had to be invented

Re:If-then-else had to be invented by hutzlibu on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:38AM (#25407760)

"This is of course related to why the famous joke "Is it a boy or a girl? Yes." is so hilarious"

Only to IT people though. Common folks will just look at you in a weird way...

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Re:If-then-else had to be invented by still_grokking on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:54PM (#25409564)

Except the folks are mathematicians.

But in this case there is actually a slight chance that nobody recognizes this as a joke at all...

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Re:If-then-else had to be invented by hutzlibu on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:34AM (#25415870)

I knew that someone would point that out..

But I figured most mathematicians are IT people, too. But there is at least also a third group: philisophers. They have formal logic, too (in university), but seldom math.

So in the spirit of the joke:

"Only to IT people though. "

Would have to be:

"Only to IT people and/or math people and/or philosophers, though. "

Desire for formal correctness satisfied?

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