• Re: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?

    From Scott Lurndal@3:633/10 to All on Mon Nov 3 17:16:20 2025
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> writes:
    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote at 19:53 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 2025-11-01, Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> wrote:
    On 01/11/2025 04:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
    On 2025-11-01, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?

    Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC

    It's not that programmer confuse them; rather, the above is the key to >>>> the mystical link between the two. It's the underpinning for why Tim
    Burton's _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ makes sense.

    I went trick-or-treating today with the kids; there was someone in
    a Santa suit!

    I bet you he had a long beard. I knew it! - one of those "octal beardies", an old-time UNIX
    programmer for sure! He probably started on a PDP-11. :)

    Real grey hairs use hex!

    REAL grey hairs use BCD.

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