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The only good programming joke I know:

My other car is a cdr.

As you may know, car and cdr are from LISP.

People are getting pretty sick of hearing this one from me though.

What's your favorite programming joke? Know of any good programming joke sites?

As a side note, how do you pronounce "cdr"? "coo-der" or "could-er"?

Published Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:11 AM by waynekao

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David Bossert said:

I suggest you you not go around calling things "cooters". >_> It's pronounced "cee-dee-are".
April 20, 2004 12:52 AM
 

Camillo said:

An Indian C programmer 10 years ago was always repeating me this one, it was lot of fun for him:
[c:\]make love
Don't know how to make 'love'
April 20, 2004 1:59 AM
 

Alistair Young said:

More like "cudder", myself.
April 20, 2004 3:36 AM
 

Camillo said:

Sorry, what does it mean "cudder"?
April 20, 2004 4:40 AM
 

Derick Bailey said:

I agree with David: c-d-r (see dee are)
April 20, 2004 6:12 AM
 

KC Lemson said:

When I learned scheme, we pronounced it "kidder"
April 20, 2004 7:55 AM
 

acm said:

The first one that comes to mind is this:

--
Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?

Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.
--

and from the lisp faq:

--
car: Originally meant "Contents of Address portion of Register", which is what CAR actually did on the IBM 704.

cdr: Originally meant "Contents of Decrement portion of Register", which is what CDR actually did on the IBM 704. Pronounced "Cudder" /kUdd@r/ (as in "a cow chews its cdr"). The first syllable is pronounced like "could".
--
April 20, 2004 9:13 AM
 

Matt said:

"could-r"

My favorite joke so far is:

Why do programmers always get halloween and christmas confused?

because: 31 OCT == 25 DEC

April 20, 2004 10:06 AM
 

acm said:

echo..?
April 20, 2004 10:42 AM
 

Jake said:

I was taught with the pronounciation of "cudder".. I agree with Alistair
April 20, 2004 10:54 AM
 

Nate Friedman said:

% man woman
No manual entry for woman
April 27, 2004 9:43 PM
 

CocoDaPuf said:

There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who know binary and those who don't
July 8, 2004 2:50 AM
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