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School-Cotton on April 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)

They are familiar as English words, yes, but unfamiliar as terms of art for Boolean values in computing. It’d be like replacing “if” statements with “whenever” statements.

mckn1ght on April 13, 2025 [–]

Don’t give them any ideas! They already tried to make inroads with ruby’s “unless”.

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