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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:44:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-13, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 13/03/2025 01:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2025-03-12, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>>> writes:
>>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote at 15:47 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>>> On 07/03/2025 21:17, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>>>>>> On 06/03/2025 22:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> Mathematicians come in two varieties: those who are oblivious
>>>>>>>> to ambiguity and those who relish it. This i situation goes
>>>>>>>> unnoticed by the former, and pleases the latter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mathematicians come in two varieties - those that can count, and those
>>>>>>> that can't count.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mathematicians come in three varieties - those that can count, and those
>>>>>> that can't count.  The third variety is left as an exercise for the
>>>>>> student.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are two sorts of people.  Those that can infer from missing data.
>>>>
>>>> There are 10 kinds of people, people who know binary and those who
>>>> don't.
>>>
>>> There are 01 kinds of people, those who understand little-endian
>>> notation and those who don't.
>> 
>> There are '\0002' kinds of people: those who understand that a C octal
>> character escape is restricted to three digits, and those who
>> drag their knuckles on the ground when they try to walk on their
>> hind legs.
>> 
>
> There are two sorts of people - those that can be divided into two sorts 
> of people, and those that can't.

There are two sorts of people: unstable sorts, which leave identical
twins in an unpredictable order, and stable sorts, which preserve their
original order.

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