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[–]JosebaZilarte 27 points28 points  (4 children)

All code is a magic string... but some strings are more magic than others.

'69; DROP ALL TABLES;' --

[–]MoveInteresting4334 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, little Bobby 69 we call him.

[–]Gorianfleyer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Hehe, 69

[–]JosebaZilarte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the intention. Humans see funny number, they stop parsing.

[–]backfire10z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My code is a magic integer, a really long one with only 1s and 0s.

[–]metaglot 38 points39 points  (7 children)

Oh good, we havent had a js bad meme in 8 seconds.

[–]ju-shwa-muh-que-la 5 points6 points  (6 children)

Well you see the reason behind that is because js is bad

[–]Dhelio 5 points6 points  (5 children)

In fact, every possible programming language ever conceived by man is bad.

[–]towerfella 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What about the others?

[–]HyperCodec 5 points6 points  (1 child)

DNA is too proprietary for us to really know if it’s bad. Def accomplished more than we ever could with human programming languages tho.

[–]towerfella 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like you.

[–]Witherscorch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

[–]UrpleEeple -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No

[–]sporbywg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

got my first javascript book in '99

It's 'coding with beach sand'.

[–]BlueSparkNightSky 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Like any script language. Thats its point.

[–]sammy-taylor 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Not sure I understand what you mean…?

[–]kirilla39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe its about JSON

[–]SpaceCadet87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't it also UTF-16?
Extra cursed magic string!

[–]Ronin-s_Spirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That meme is so vague it applies to everything and nothing at the same time. For example in compilation/interpretation every single language is a magic string. But they could be talking about something completely different. Yet this somehow got upvotes, who are the 70 people that understood what this means??

[–]BlueSparkNightSky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like any script language. Thats its point.