this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025

195 points (93.0% liked)

Programmer Humor

20893 readers

1212 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

195

(How to trigger programmers (and make them irrationally angry) (self.programmer_humor)

submitted 2 days ago by potoo22 to c/programmer_humor

80 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek Question mark (;), provided they're working in a language that uses semicolons at the end of every line, and their IDE doesn't highlight the difference (which some do now)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Fun fact, Rust has a special error message for this:

Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like a semicolon, but it is not.

It also detects other potentially confusing Unicode characters, like the division slash which looks like /.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Replace all spaces with the unicode non-breaking space that looks the same.

Although I know at least some language servers will detect this and mark it as an error, lol.