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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink22•edit-28 months ago “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C Is this a joke or an AI hallucination? I’m pretty sure Sartre never wrote about programming in ANSI C. There is a book called “Programming in ANSI C” by E. Balagurusamy I can only find other references to this quote from sites that are linking this article. The article actually does date back to 2016 so it’s not AI generated.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink42•8 months agoI should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is: “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Is this a joke
or an AI hallucination? I’m pretty sure Sartre never wrote about programming in ANSI C.There is a book called “Programming in ANSI C” by E. Balagurusamy
I can only find other references to this quote from sites that are linking this article.
The article actually does date back to 2016 so it’s not AI generated.
I should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is:
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Thanks for checking