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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How do you know which language they are writing in?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Based on syntax, use of indents for code blocking, and the comment hash, I'd say it's meant to be python but has a bug. But it could always just be pseudo code with a mistake. But it doesn't look like any single = conditional language I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks like pseudo code to me. But pseudo code doesn't really have a standard, does it? So their personal flavor is perfectly acceptable and correct (single equals acting as comparison). We know what they mean, what they're trying to convey -- we get the joke. No need to pick it apart. 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True, I wasn't intending to be nasty. I was more responding to the "How do you know" in a general sense of how one COULD assign it a language. No harm meant at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh, gosh, it's my mistake. I confused you with the person who made the initial nit-pick about the equal sign. Hey, have a good day! 😊

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