Vort Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 A programmer was going to the store. His wife said, "While you're at the store, grab a gallon of milk." He never came home. askandanswer, mordorbund, Carborendum and 3 others 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarginOfError Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 Seems like it'd be easy enough to come home by just dropping the gallon of milk as soon as he exits the store. But the milk will never make it home. Vort and Carborendum 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carborendum Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 16 minutes ago, MarginOfError said: Seems like it'd be easy enough to come home by just dropping the gallon of milk as soon as he exits the store. But the milk will never make it home. I finally get it. I don't know why the OP didn't make sense to me. But I didn't spend a lot of time on it. Thanks for the clarification. The Folk Prophet and Vort 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zil2 Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 Apparently some people have never written an infinite loop. The poor programmer had no way out of his while loop. Of course, I'm having a hard time deciding whether he grabbed one gallon and just stood there, or repeatedly grabbed and released the same gallon (seems wrong), or kept grabbing gallons - one per iteration of the loop - and what he did when he could grab no more. NeuroTypical, Carborendum and Vort 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikbone Posted January 23, 2023 Report Share Posted January 23, 2023 And that’s how close we are to AI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popatr Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 I think the real point of this joke is that she didn't tell him to come home; when classically programming a computer, the computer does only what you instruct and nothing more Vort 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted February 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 2 hours ago, popatr said: I think the real point of this joke is that she didn't tell him to come home; when classically programming a computer, the computer does only what you instruct and nothing more while(true) { // You can never get out } zil2 and The Folk Prophet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Folk Prophet Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 9 hours ago, Vort said: while(true) { // You can never get out } I didn't get the original joke until you posted this. Then I went back and read it and...haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Folk Prophet Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 On a side note: I've been a professional programmer for nigh unto 10 years now. I may not be a particularly expert programmer...but I'm pretty decent I guess. But I have never, ever, in my entire career, EVER, written a while loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carborendum Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 3 minutes ago, The Folk Prophet said: On a side note: I've been a professional programmer for nigh unto 10 years now. I may not be a particularly expert programmer...but I'm pretty decent I guess. But I have never, ever, in my entire career, EVER, written a while loop. At least I had the excuse of not having done any programming in the last 30 years. And, like you, I don't think I ever used a while command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vort Posted February 2, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 37 minutes ago, The Folk Prophet said: 9 hours ago, Vort said: while(true) { // You can never get out } I didn't get the original joke until you posted this. Then I went back and read it and...haha. If it makes you feel any better, my daughter told this joke on our family call last Sunday. Everyone laughed but me. My sons had to point out the word "while" in the joke before I understood. At least I groaned appropriately when I got it. The Folk Prophet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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