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That's not the truth. It's one of infinitely many truths. They hated him because Jesus didn't understand how implicit type casting between int and bool worked.
Lambda calculus gang has entered the chat with
λx.λy.x
as The Truth™I told them to leave a pamphlet and fuck off, but the pamphlet was a fixed-point combinator that put them back on my porch again.
if ((1 > 0) == 1)
printf("The OG truth\n");
And then there are things like strcmp() that uses 0 as true. At least it is for a good reason, but still confusing.
I don't find it confusing at all. The function doesn't test equivalence, and the return value is not meant to be a logical value.