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  Re: A programmer joke
  By: Anton Shepelev to All on Sat Feb 06 2021 08:02 pm

 AS> Can you please review my translation into English of the
 AS> following little joke:

 AS> A programmer's mother asks her son: "Will you please go to
 AS> the drugstore and buy us some buns? And if they happen to
 AS> have eggs, then take ten." The programmer enters the
 AS> drugstore and says to the clerk:

 AS> -- Have you eggs?
 AS> -- We sure do, sir.
 AS> -- Ten buns, please.

I think that almost perfectly says what the author is trying to convey.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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