XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 01/11/2025 17:05, Mike Terry wrote:   
   > On 01/11/2025 04:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >> On 2025-11-01, Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >>> Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?   
   >>>   
   >>> Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC   
   >>   
   >> It's not that programmer confuse them; rather, the above is the   
   >> key to   
   >> the mystical link between the two. It's the underpinning for   
   >> why Tim   
   >> Burton's _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ makes sense.   
   >>   
   >> I went trick-or-treating today with the kids; there was someone in   
   >> a Santa suit!   
   >>   
   > I bet you he had a long beard.  I knew it! - one of those "octal   
   > beardies", an old-time UNIX programmer for sure!  He probably   
   > started on a PDP-11.  :)   
      
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