XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 01/11/2025 03:58, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?   
      
   Cf 'The Family Man', in Isaac Asimov's 'Casebook', 1976   
      
   I said, ‘Yes, I have always thought that, were it not for the   
   enormous commercial overweighting of the Yuletide, a child’s   
   spontaneous reaction would be to treat Halloween with the full   
   excitement of Christmas.’   
      
   “And, surprisingly, my quarry spoke up. As though overwhelmed by   
   an emotion that forced his naturally quiet personality into the   
   limelight, he said, with a warm smile that lightened and almost   
   transfigured his face, ‘You are quite right. In a way, Halloween   
   may be considered precisely equal to Christmas.’ Those were his   
   exact words, gentlemen, for I noted them at the time with   
   particular care.”   
      
      
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   Richard Heathfield   
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