Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?

If you were going to make a programming shirt with one line of code or one expression on the front of the shirt right in the middle what would it be? Examples:

(+ 1 2)

++i;

x ? x : y

rzzzwilson · a year ago

If it has to be one line, the comment:

    You are not expected to understand this.

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Ope... .

rcfox · a year ago

:(){ :|:& };:

Though, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've already seen that as a t-shirt.

wruza · a year ago

Is that a shell script? Doesn’t seem to do anything on my linux server.

trealira · a year ago

It's a fork bomb in shell script. It's more human readable like this:

  bomb() { 
    bomb | bomb &
  }; bomb

Apparently this trick doesn't work nowadays due to cgroups:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/469950/why-cant-i-c...

smarm52 · a year ago

// DON'T TRY TO FIX THIS, IF REMOVED BREAKS PRODUCTION

fuzzfactor · a year ago

If the footwear was appropriate, you could say something like:

>BOOT DEVICE NOT FOUND;

>FALLING BACK TO SNEAKERNET . . .

afitnerd · a year ago

Bash fork bomb. In fact, I have the tshirt.

:(){ :|:& };:

Good explanation here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/

ahazred8ta · a year ago

The export-restricted perl munition t-shirt text:

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/rsa/

#!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+dlMLa^lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj

drstewart · a year ago

// TODO: Fix me

fuzzfactor · a year ago

Haven't seen this in a while;

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

codegladiator · a year ago

and those who mistake it for binary.

defrost · a year ago

that's why it works better with 11