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Started by Jason78, December 20, 2013, 04:16:53 AM

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Jason78

It's in Tell a Joke or two, because I'm not sure if serious...

Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub

QuoteA group called The Feminist Software Foundation has accused GitHub of misogyny after it disabled access to a repository containing its first effort: a feminist programming language called "C+=".

Pronounced either "C plus equality" or "see equality", C+= has since found a home at bitbucket.org, where a manifesto declares it is "a feminist programming language, created to smash the toxic Patriarchy that is inherent in and that permeates all current computer programming languages."
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Plu

Pretty sure the equality sign in programming languages is == and the regalur = is (almost) always called assignment.  :roll:

It's most likely a joke. And the bitbucket version has also gone missing.

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Sal1981

in JS "+=" means adding to a variable, if you didn't already know.

so instead of

someVar = someVar + addVar;

you can write:

someVar += addVar;

But yeah, that's probably just a joke.

Jason Harvestdancer

+= means something in C and C++.  It means to increment the variable by the amount indicated after the sign.

x == 10
x += 10

At that point x is now equal to 20.
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Quote from: "Jason78"It's in Tell a Joke or two, because I'm not sure if serious...

Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub

QuoteA group called The Feminist Software Foundation has accused GitHub of misogyny after it disabled access to a repository containing its first effort: a feminist programming language called "C+=".

Pronounced either "C plus equality" or "see equality", C+= has since found a home at bitbucket.org, where a manifesto declares it is "a feminist programming language, created to smash the toxic Patriarchy that is inherent in and that permeates all current computer programming languages."
Is this a joke?

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Plu

I'm aware it means something, but it doesn't mean equality. And yes it's a joke mykcob.

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