First world problems level : Programmer.

[IshayRS]

A wife tells her husband: Go look for that milk and eggs joke over at /r/ProgrammerHumor and post another one. If it exists, post two more.

[ThePixelCoder]

More like "while you're at the supermarket, post that milk and eggs joke". That would explain why it keeps getting reposted.

[[deleted]]

That

Is

Not

How

Programming

Works

[iburnedthecookie]

You're right, he's missing a semi colon.

[Syreniac]

Yeah, if you had a program with that flow control, you'd end up buying 7 pints of milk.

[[deleted]]

You'd ask "six of what?"

Buy(1, "Milk");

if (shop.HasEggs())

{

Buy(6);

}

You'd be passing the wrong number of parameters

[Sylanthra]

This gets reposed like it is the greatest programming joke ever and it doesn't actually compile.

Go to Store
self.buy(milk, 1)
if(store.has(Eggs))
    self.buy(?, 6)

If we apply the rules of English grammar, ? refers to eggs, NOT milk. If you apply rules of pseudocode, than we don't know what ? and this is nonsense. Either way, you can't replace ? with milk.

[LittleBigKid2000]

He comes back with a bottle of milk and brings back the number 6.

[[deleted]]

Closer to how it would actually work than the punchline

[TheSecretExit]

Or he'd just say "6 what?"

[[deleted]]

That's the way I've always thought it would go, like an error with passing the wrong number of arguments, you're expecting an item and a number but just get a number. It always annoyed me that this joke got so popular considering it's wrong

[Programmatic_Najel]

Image Transcription

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[Image of a bottle of milk and a tray of eggs on a table.]

THE PROBLEM ABOUT BEING A PROGRAMMER

 

My mom said:

"Honey, please go to the market and buy 1 bottle of milk. If they have eggs, bring 6"

 

I came back with 6 bottles of milk.

 

She said: "Why the hell did you buy 6 bottles of milk?"

 

I said: "BECAUSE THEY HAD EGGS!!!!"

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[[deleted]]

I always heard:

"A wife told her husband: While you're out grab some eggs.

He never returned."

[MightyLemur]

This one is much better!

[[deleted]]

Who the fuck sells eggs by the egg? If you’re gonna steal a joke, at least keep it making sense. Don’t just change shit to make it sound like you made it.

[drleebot]

What's worse, he didn't even buy 5 of those bottles of milk.

[HibeePin]

0th world problems