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Molly Struve (she/her)
Molly Struve (she/her)

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What's your best software pun?

Yesterday I realized that I had included a great pun in my Cache is King conference talk(besides the title of course!) without even knowing it.

My team and I were bound and determined to find the root cause of our MySQL woes

So my challenge to you is, what is the best software pun you have heard or you yourself have dished out?!

The more cringe-worthy the better!!!

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Russell Watson

The absolutely best pun is:

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Sadly, however, it's just not funny, because it hurts.

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Alex ***ng

Boss: How good are you at PowerPoint?
Me: I Excel at it.
Boss: Was that a Microsoft office pun?
Me: Word.

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Judith

404

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Harsh Rathod

Teacher: What is a wild pointer?
Me: Survivor of the wild. 😂

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Michel Renaud

Not a pun, but from the index of the dBASE III Plus manual back in the '80s (when software came with printed manuals so big you could kill someone with them):

  • Endless Loop: See Loop, Endless ... ...
  • Loop, Endless: See Endless Loop
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Zohar Peled • Edited

punch cards. No, not really, I'm not that old.

My personal favorite is probably this Rick Cook quote:

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

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Quentin Sonrel

Love this one

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Ngacho

The best one I have ever heard is

A programmer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment😂😂

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Fulton Browne

this one

Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Yes.

this one

!false

It's funny 'cause it's true.

and this one

nock Knock!

An async function

Who's there?

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PRATEEK TEWARI • Edited

The DOM people see -DOM

The DOM I see - DOM

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PRATEEK TEWARI

I went to Comic Con - sole purpose was to enjoy. Lost my i-card, got Logged out of it.

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PRATEEK TEWARI

I was so stressed,I drank it all in one gulp.
Grunted for an hour,before it came out of my System.

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PRATEEK TEWARI

I used to call her babe. She told babeLoves you. Turned out she loved my friend called You. All this time they were transpiling(I mean conspiring) against me.

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PRATEEK TEWARI

The chief executive yelled at everyone,
"Functional or not,we have to deliver,the components to our client by tonight, so I don't care how you do it,get a bundler,get it bundled, We(b)pack tonight,we ship".