Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas? Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:47:25 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 20 Message-ID: <871pmi58si.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10e40gr$10lb5$1@dont-email.me> <20251031212921.373@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16acd51b0cd5c36f46c9713f3803752b"; logging-data="1265854"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gWkm2/K5BIXKrW5i9Y0eE" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hz2AwrMZ6jHAok0f0CN93YBN650= sha1:8dYC0fHbCX44tMs4tRoSWXzmjh8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:395026 comp.lang.c++:122931 Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes: > On 2025-11-01, Lynn McGuire 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 had a trick-or-treater call me Santa. "Ho ho ho *ahem* no, no, no!" -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */