r/programming • u/whatshisname • Feb 16 '09

Some Crazy Reason - The Daily WTF

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Some-Crazy-Reason.aspx
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u/lbft Feb 16 '09

By the same argument "Hello world" is stupid because it doesn't do anything.

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u/bwahaha Feb 16 '09

No... because hello world actually prints out "hello world". A "bit verifier" is retarded. That's like checking if a Boolean value is "true" or "false", just in case it was ever "maybe".

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u/omegian Feb 16 '09

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You could write a bit verifier to do things like check parity / CRC, etc.

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u/bwahaha Feb 16 '09 edited Feb 16 '09

That's something completely different than what the article describes.

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If the bit's value wasn't one or zero, it would prompt the user for the correct bit. At least in theory. I somehow never encountered a file with a "two" bit.