Comment by vijucat
10 hours ago
During my M.Tech in Comp. Sci, I was requested to volunteer to be a lab assistant in a diploma course in programming in C for non-technical people. A Ph.D. in Philosophy was complaining that his program was not compiling. He wrote "exist(0)" instead of "exit(0)". I found this so interesting. Existentialism was on his mind, I guess. The program clearly exits by not existing any more? Can't argue with that!
I corrected him and went on my rounds. I remember that a bank manager was the best of the batch. By the time I circled back to my philosophy friend, he quietly changed "exit()" back to "exist()" and the program was not compiling again! This anecdote stayed in my mind.
Not gonna lie, exist(0) sounds badass and ought to be a system API of some kind.
It would fit Prolog. You terminate the program, by proving that it doesn't exist.
Sounds like a great name for a post-rock digicore/hyperpop midwest emo band.