Credits to: Martin Uecker

Posted Mar 31, 2018 1:35 UTC (Sat) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446)
In reply to: Credits to: Martin Uecker by nix
Parent article: The joy of max()

"... is rare enough that I had to stare at the screen for five minutes to figure out what on earth that ternary was doing."

Now you now what it is like reading a paper of a mathematic or similar proof. It seems to me that IT is gradually growing up.

Credits to: Martin Uecker

Posted Apr 1, 2018 17:04 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The feeling is more or less exactly the same, and has happened to me many times in the past with similar standard-subtlety. You can't really put language standards in the same bin as ineffable proof Truth though.