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You might be a programmer if...

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<ol> You immediately complain that this should be subscripted as zero. Most people say "Go To Hell," but you tell people to redirect to <c>/dev/null</c>. By the time you've gotten here in the document, you've run Tidy or a similar app to check my X/HTML skills. The statement <c>(0x2b||!0x2b)</c> makes sense to you. You find 4 funny. You note with disgust that it always evaluates to true, since <c>0x2b != 0</c>. Point 6 disgusts you, because under languages other than C++ (e.g. Java), it would throw an exception, runtime error, etc. Both points 6 and 7 disgust you, because <c>(0x2b||!0x2b)</c> isn't a statement. </ol> I've truncated the original posting (received via email; thanks, Stephan!) to keep it short and sweet. If you're not a programmer, just move along...