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submitted 10 months ago by JPDev to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The short answer is that your language needs === when it fucked up the semantics of ==, but it's also too popular and you can't fix it without breaking half the web.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or when it is something like Prolog, where equality is inherently a messy and complex concept.