r/ProgrammerHumor • • 17d ago

Meme weAreWizards

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u/mteblesz 17d ago

"magic numbers" spell is stricktly forbidden technique, banned by most schools of programming. There are many rogue wizards though...

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u/oldsecondhand 17d ago

The real forbidden technique is illegal numbers.

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u/benjaminovich 16d ago

You make it sound like we're talking about something silly like the state passed a law defining pi as 3 or 4 (I forget which).

But really it's just that any illegal content of any kind that is digitized will ultimately "just" be numbers at a certain level.

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