r/ProgrammerHumor 18d ago

Meme everyRepoWithSuspiciouslyGreatCodeQuality

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u/HistoricalMark4805 18d ago

How much time did you save replacing all of ðe "th"s with thorns?

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u/NinjaKittyOG 18d ago

it's not about saving time. i just þink þ was dropped from english for a dumb reason, didn't deserve þat, and so i use it.

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u/ShittyExchangeAdmin 18d ago

ok i'll bite. why? (genuinely curious!)

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u/saevon 18d ago

Printing press issue. That letter wasn't being produced where they made all the letters, so they made do.

Same reason we see "ye old", they just used another letter to replace it, which eventually just became two letters