Alex: Man, I’ll never understand the women
Programmer: Nobody will… But why are you saying this?
Alex: My wife asked me to go to the market and said: “Bring 6 eggs. If there are potatoes, bring 9.” There were potatoes. But she got mad when I arrived only with the 9 eggs…
Programmer: Go figure…
Programmer: Nobody will… But why are you saying this?
Alex: My wife asked me to go to the market and said: “Bring 6 eggs. If there are potatoes, bring 9.” There were potatoes. But she got mad when I arrived only with the 9 eggs…
Programmer: Go figure…
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Could we please cut down on “I don’t understand women” jokes?
No. The problem is not with the women. It was a classical “man talk”. Doesn’t means they are right.
It also doesn’t mean they are wrong
But more to the point, women also mocks men in their conversations too, so what’s the problem? It’s not even like we’re calling them dumb, it’s just a funny look in the perspective difference between a housewife and a programmer.
Just because the other side is doing it too is not an excuse to engage in wrong behavior, it just means both sides are wrong.
Its a comic that is all. An observation of how people interact. The author has not condoned the behavior of the programmers, only presented a funny hypothetical conversation based on different world perspectives. Best not to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Hang on, maybe it’s a matter of interpretation. Let’s try this variant:
Alex: Man, I’ll never understand [unspecified, gender-neutral group].
Programmer: Nobody will… But why are you saying this?
Alex: [individual member of unspecified, gender-neutral group] asked me to go to the market and said: “Bring 6 eggs. If there are potatoes, bring 9.” There were potatoes. But [individual] got mad when I arrived only with the 9 eggs…
Programmer: Go figure…
I know, hilarious now, right?
Good… And in the comic it could be only a shadow…
I don’t understand women
Go make dinner
That’s logical. Non-programming women aren’t.
Nice try, but singling out programmer women isn’t going to make the attack on the rest any less justified.
What attack? Are you on some kind of trip?
(Little tip: The woman uses common sense. The programmer in an absurdly logical way. The joke’s on the programmer, not the woman…)
Some Kind of Troll??? Holy Shit is just a comic, get over it!
This is supposed to be a poke at the programmers, not a poke at the wife. He wasn’t really listening to what she was saying and when he misinterpreted the request it’s supposed to make the programmer look out of touch.
Vixi, o ProgramadorReal não tem folga mesmo, até aqui o pessoal é passional XD
The joke’s on the programmer. Go figure.
Stampanti anche sono programmabili, la maggioria nel linguaggio Postscript. Non potrai più scusarti così…
Ops.. wrong comment on the wrong strip on the wrong language on the wrong version of this site… >.<
bring(6*egg);
if (thereIs(potatoe)) bring (9*egg);
print(whatIsBrought());
Result is 15 eggs, c’mon!
You misunderstood the requirements.
int eggs;
eggs = 6;
if (thereIs(potatoes)) eggs = 9;
Yeaah!! xD
I’ve understood the same!!!
@bgeyts667: Precisely. No wonder the wife was angry.
Alex: Man, I’ll never understand women
Programmer: Nobody will… But why do you say that?
Alex: My wife asked me to go to the store and said: “Get 6 eggs. If there are potatoes, get 9.” There were potatoes. But she got mad when I got back with only 9 eggs…
Programmer: Go figure…
Nice jokes, you make us laugh everyday, we made a W7 theme pack and it’s published on every programmers pc. BTW the boss look like ours.
Keep the good work
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Man, I had been feeling REALLY oppressed yesterday and this morning. Glad I finally figured out why.
Actually, the male programmer was not very logical. Any decent compiler for the wife’s statement would have returned some kind of “ambiguous type” or “ambiguous reference” error. Were the male programmer being logical, he would not have assumed that “9″ was a reference to eggs, and instead would have declined to perform her request until it was properly restated.
Being a female developer, I feel I have the need to say something. This style of talk is quite common in the industry. I get colleagues who tells me they never understand their other halves and will tell me how to understand them more but then I understand males more than females myself so even I say I don’t understand women. Like I know for a fact a lot of men forgets special days not because they wanted to but they just do. But then I rarely do come across programmers who brings logics into everyday conversation.
BTW, “THE WOMEN”, is that a mistake? (“the” being the mistake).
I’m a sixty year old programmer and I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see that programmers can now talk to each other. For the past 30 years I’ve been “crazy” because we can’t seem to relate to “normal” people.
My wife and I (for lucidfox: I’m not trying to offend any “partners”, I actually have a wife) struggle to communicate because this is exactly the way I think.
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In case there were potatoes, my wife says he should have brought 9 potatoes. I think he should have brought potatoes (i. e. a bag) and 9 eggs. Who do you think is right?
XD
Agree with Christopher, and even if we assume some smart parser and it does not parser to the wife expected return (6 eggs and 9 potatoes), it still should parse as bgeyts667 says, 15 eggs (in this case, probably implying two visits to the shop, or at least to the egg rack, one for the first command, another one for the second command).
The man is assuming some kind of ELSE statement which is nowhere. I am not surprised the wife becomes mad. Any programmer should become mad.
“The” women
The punctuation given has a full-stop after 6 eggs, making the potatoes the subject of the sentence containing the bring 9 clause. This means the wife’s expectation is correct, so clearly the joke is not sexist, but doubly offensive to programmers as it implies they are sexiest and illiterate. I don’t think we should stand for such libelous, anti-programmer attempts at humor.
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