Sigh. Guess I need the joke explained?

What’s wrong with strict types?

Fuck ChatGPT.

I seem to recall coming across a glossary that had something to the effect of,

mutual recursion - see recursion, mutual

recursion, mutual - see mutual recursion

Yep, checks out to me.

I’ll bet Ada Lovelace had some somewhere.

“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”

• No one, ever

As long as I don’t have to maintain it.

(Who tf downvoted this? The “legacy code” lobby?)

Hey, in my defense, the explanation there was only added in 2022, and I’d already given up looking by then!

Thank you! You would not believe how long I’ve been trying to figure out where the term came from.

The best explanation I’d heard prior to now was that the practice of composing functions was akin to mixing ingredients for curry, (the food) but I’d never really bought that line of reasoning.

Lost the coin flip.

Bold of you to assume no one will come up with a replacement date library rather than just getting rid of JS.