BTW that one isn't a joke made up for this site: it's a verbatim quote from The Art of Computer Programming (Volume 2, page 2). TAOCP is full of silly-but-serio

BTW that one isn't a joke made up for this site: it's a verbatim quote from The Art of Computer Programming (Volume 2, page 2). TAOCP is full of silly-but-serious jokes like that.