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The oldest joke in programming history (programming.dev)
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A women sent her kid that was into programming to the grocery store and told it:

"Please buy 1 bottle of milk if they have eggs buy 2"

The kid returned with just 2 bottles of milk. When it's mom ask why it bought 2 bottles of milk, the kid said:

"Because they had eggs"

... Was the kid right?

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[–] Snaggen 1 points 1 year ago

The joke lies in interpreting human languages as if it was a computer algorithm. Remove any computer language context, and it is hard to even find a joke or logic in this. Any human would not do this interpretation since we can understand context, this would only be seen as a very strange attempt at a joke. However, computers don't understand context, so adding that component and the joke makes sense. So, even if it really is a grammar joke, it needs the programming context to work as a joke.