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I'm very bad with names and quotes, so sometimes I'll ask ChatGPT something like "what's that famous quote Brian Kernighan said about programming language names
by ModernMech 8mo ago
I'm very bad with names and quotes, so sometimes I'll ask ChatGPT something like "what's that famous quote Brian Kernighan said about programming language names" and it will just make shit up, when really I was thinking about Donald Knuth. But according to ChatGPT, Kernighan famously said:
“Everyone knows that Perl is designed to make easy things easy, and hard things possible, but nobody knows why it’s called Perl.”
Which of course returns 0 results on Google, as is customary for famous quotes.
- kolinko 8mo agoWhich version? I just tested mine and it replied with an actual quote
- ModernMech 8mo agoThe model hosted at chat.com gave me that. It told me what he said about debugging, but also included that made up quote as well which it attributed to him. But what it should have said was "Kernighan has no famous quotes about naming languages, you're probably thinking of the quote by Knuth about the importance of naming in language design."
- kolinko 7mo agoFull version or free version? Most conplaints people make, I found, was because they use the free version.