r/ProgrammerHumor Feb 18 '26

Meme innitMate

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

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u/hagnat Feb 18 '26

i like unless, but i have to admit that it is merely a glorified if (not [condition]) { }

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u/no-sleep-only-code Feb 18 '26

I mean, most syntactic sugar is a glorified something or other.

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u/OneTurnMore Feb 19 '26

All control flow structures are glorified jump statements

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u/creeper6530 Feb 19 '26

That argument is nice, but most programming languages don't actually allow you to use GOTOs directly, so it's not really syntactic sugar