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    How do you know which language they are writing in?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Based on syntax, use of indents for code blocking, and the comment hash, I'd say it's meant to be python but has a bug. But it could always just be pseudo code with a mistake. But it doesn't look like any single = conditional language I know.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It looks like pseudo code to me. But pseudo code doesn't really have a standard, does it? So their personal flavor is perfectly acceptable and correct (single equals acting as comparison). We know what they mean, what they're trying to convey -- we get the joke. No need to pick it apart. 👍

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    True, I wasn't intending to be nasty. I was more responding to the "How do you know" in a general sense of how one COULD assign it a language. No harm meant at all.

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