Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by preparat on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:30PM (#25852258)

I think I saw this on reddit years ago:

Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six."

He comes back with 6 cartons of milk. Wife: "why would you buy six cartons of milk?"

"Well, they had eggs"

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by nvader on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:44PM (#25852400)

The next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas."

Legend says he's at the store still.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by musicale on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:07PM (#25852623)

Programmers will also use up all the shampoo if the label says "lather, rinse, repeat" with no explicit termination condition.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by sjburt on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:32AM (#25855805)

Since when do programmers read the documentation?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by mark-r on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:19PM (#25854941)

That one can be attributed to Grace Hopper.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by dfex on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:28PM (#25865362)

Fortunately showering doesn't appear to be common in the profession

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by nvader on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:47PM (#25866318)

Except for:

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? by klik99 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:29AM (#25856138)

I get it, she’s upset that he didn’t get 7, which is technicallly what she meant.

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