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.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lambda calculus gang has entered the chat with λx.λy.x as The Truth™

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then there are things like strcmp() that uses 0 as true. At least it is for a good reason, but still confusing.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if ((1 > 0) == 1)
printf("The OG truth\n");