Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notepad++'s code (Line 7102)

Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:37AM (#33516491)

"The best things in life are free.

Notepad++ is free.

So Notepad++ is the best.

Logically incorrect. Maybe that is the joke. Should be: "The best things in life are free. Notepad++ is free. Therefore if something is not free, it cannot be one of the best things, or notepad++"

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by rzzzt on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:01AM (#33516612)

The joke is indeed the false syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism#Syllogistic_fallacie...

Well deduced!

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by yreg on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:25AM (#33517769)

It's also the cartesian ontological argument for the existence of God.

>The God is perfect.

>If the God did not exist it wouldn't be perfect.

>Therefore God must exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Ren%C3%A9...

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by afiori on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#33518729)

The ontological argument is a valid deduction

> A, B implies not A thus not B

The problem is that you have to prove both A and (B implies not A), without self referentially assuming it in the first place,

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:05AM (#33527698)

Sounds like proof by contradiction

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:15AM (#33528687)

Also the definition of an alibi!

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by dlivingston on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:04AM (#33516620)

Something something "like dissecting a frog."

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by FeepingCreature on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:35AM (#33516813)

(Context: "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a live frog to figure out how it works. The first thing you have on your hands is a dead frog.")

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by layer8 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:46AM (#33517223)

If you read “is” as “equals”, then the best things in life are Notepad++.

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by statheros on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:47AM (#33517570)

Yes, that is the joke lol. Just like the witch scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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