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Falsehoods programmers believe about languages (www.lexiconista.com)
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I can’t believe nobody has done this list yet. I mean, there is one about names, one about time and many others on other topics, but not one about languages yet (except one honorable mention that comes close). So, here’s my attempt to list all the misconceptions and prejudices I’ve come across in the course of my long and illustrious career in software localisation and language technology. Enjoy – and send me your own ones!

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Every language has words for yes and no.

Assuming yes and no means true and false, c has numbers (1, 0) for yes and no and c++ can use those numbers for yes and no because it is a superset of c.

Technically, it's 0 and non-0 but I always use 1. They are integers rather than keywords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The article is not about programming languages 🫠

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Technically, 0 is false and anything else is true. !0 is 1, though, IIRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As far as C goes, 1 is true and 0 is false.

In terms of POSIX exit codes, 0 is success and 1 is error.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Confidently incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Until you use exit codes, which flips the logic.