Saturday, February 26, 2005

Saturday, February 26, 2005
05:39 PM
philosophical computerisms

Computer existentialism: "Sometimes I’m surprised by method names.

- (BOOL)computersOtherThanThisComputerExist



Okay—it’s not filled in. How could you possibly answer such an existential question?



Well, luckily, we’re talking about computers, not people. And it’s just one line of code.



Here’s the answer:

return ([[self computersNamesOtherThanThisComputer] count] > 0);' /><br /><br /><br /><br />(Yes, this is actual code that I wrote this evening. It’s part of syncing for NetNewsWire.)

(Via Inessential.com.)

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