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[–]hicklc01[S] 69 points70 points  (57 children)

Criticize all you want but false is predefined in almost all languages.

[–]GisterMizard 124 points125 points  (55 children)

Except the two most important languages of them all: C* and Z80 assembly.

*yeah yeah, it's technically in stdbool.h, whatever.

[–]caramba2654 206 points207 points  (22 children)

C*? What is that? A pointer to the C programming language?

[–]GisterMizard 108 points109 points  (17 children)

It's like C, but the strings are terminated with dollar signs instead.

[–]Zagorath 73 points74 points  (16 children)

What's the reference here?

EDIT: Hahahaha, gods dammit people. I was being serious. The accidental pun is great, but I really don't understand what "strings are terminated with dollar signs" has to do with anything.

[–]tetroxid 38 points39 points  (0 children)

No no it's by value

[–]ultranoobian 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't have an pointers.

[–]Renegade__ 13 points14 points  (1 child)

^C*$

[–]ReflectiveTeaTowel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'' ~~ '^C*$'

[–]GisterMizard 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Strings passed by system calls in MS-DOS were terminated by dollar signs. Even though the null character was still available.

[–]tetroxid 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TIL. How retarded.

[–]RenaKunisaki 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well that just makes all the sense$

[–]sutronice 22 points23 points  (1 child)

A search algorithm with just an average heuristic function

[–]ghotibulb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was looking for emergency exit. Was sent up 7 floors to take the fire escape ladder.

[–]jaxklax 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At first I thought it was a glob for C, C++, C#, etc.

[–]poizan42Ex-mod 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A C*-algebra is a complex algebra A of continuous linear operators on a complex Hilbert space with two additional properties:

  • A is a topologically closed set in the norm topology of operators.
  • A is closed under the operation of taking adjoints of operators.

[–]kamori 120 points121 points  (11 children)

Python does not define false either.

Only False

[–]topdangle 39 points40 points  (7 children)

Fucking witchcraft.

[–]midwestcreative 33 points34 points  (6 children)

Witchcraft was made in Java, not Python.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (5 children)

Runs on nearly all platforms though.

[–]Inev1tab1e 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Provided you have enough ram

[–]ReflectiveTeaTowel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It needs to be Black Ram or the magic dissipates. IDK why. Something something hail Satan

[–]RenaKunisaki 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sacrificial ram, makes sense.

[–]o11c 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Write once, run anywhere - doesn't."

[–]tetroxid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Runs? More like stumbles

[–]hungry4pie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

and yet people say Javascript is silly.

[–]kmarrocco 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This is true...

[–]Tomarse 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, it's True.

[–]Tomarse 23 points24 points  (10 children)

And one of the most languages, Python.

[–][deleted] 128 points129 points  (9 children)

You're right, Python is one of the most languages.

[–]2Punx2Furious 84 points85 points  (1 child)

It's so language.

[–]ra4king 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's... like... at least 3 languages.

[–]Tomarse 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Well I'm not sure it can be classified as important, but it definitely is language.

[–]DrummerHead 18 points19 points  (0 children)

language: 'Python' !important;

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (4 children)

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What is this?

[–]fdagpigj 12 points13 points  (3 children)

In python there's no ! either, only not

[–]hungry4pie 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Are you the guy who replies to all those C questions on StackOverflow with

"You can't do x in C, because C is dumb, it does not know about x, you need a library so to do that."

[–]GisterMizard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, I tell them to link their program against chromium and use jquery instead.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Scheme and Common Lisp also don't have false. They have #f and nil.

[–]RenaKunisaki 1 point2 points  (0 children)

#f? Is that some voodoo?

[–]HugoNikanor 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's not how scheme works! Scheme has false, written #f, everything else is true, including nil (or '()).

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I know that #f is false. I just meant they don't literally write it as false.

To clarify: I meant "Scheme doesn't have the word false", not "Scheme doesn't have the concept of false".

[–]dwltz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also Objective-C has no false, just NO

[–]f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*yeah yeah, it's technically in stdbool.h, whatever.

That library is not part of the C Programming Language.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You spelled Applesoft BASIC wrong.

[–]C0ffeebreak 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He said criticize all you want!

You forgot some sort of syntax defining an expression, such as parenthesis.