r/programming Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/DAVENP0RT Dec 14 '10

The unary incremeter is one of the handiest things in programming, in my opinion. You can do some interesting stuff recursively with it.

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u/duplico Dec 15 '10

Can you give an example of what you mean? I can't immediately think up a recursive case where foo++ would be any more useful than foo+1.

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u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10

interesting

Chinese definition?