2008-05-06
Original: 2008-05-06 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Gray-haired man (a teacher/professor): "I DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE CHILD PRODIGIES! I'M NOT TEACHING A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INVENTED BY TWELVE-YEAR-OLDS! IT'S UNDIGNIFIED!"
A balding man with reddish hair (facing away): "BUT IT'S THE MOST ELEGANT LANGUAGE EVER CREATED! EVERYONE'S USING IT!"
Gray-haired man: "*sigh...*"
Panel 2:
The gray-haired man now stands at a chalkboard in front of a class, pointing at code. On the board is written: "Butt(:=0; (:x:(++)" with "{ ... }" below it.
Teacher: "SO, HERE, YOU'LL WANT A... *sigh...* BUTT LOOP."
A student (blond, in the class): "CAN I PUT A BONER ARRAY IN MY BUTT LOOP?"
Teacher: "*sigh...* OF COURSE YOU CAN..."
Votey:
A crudely-drawn man with a weary, deadpan expression. Above/beside him, handwritten text reads: "That's day 1 of" and below in large letters "C8==D++"
Gray-haired man (a teacher/professor): "I DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE CHILD PRODIGIES! I'M NOT TEACHING A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INVENTED BY TWELVE-YEAR-OLDS! IT'S UNDIGNIFIED!"
A balding man with reddish hair (facing away): "BUT IT'S THE MOST ELEGANT LANGUAGE EVER CREATED! EVERYONE'S USING IT!"
Gray-haired man: "*sigh...*"
Panel 2:
The gray-haired man now stands at a chalkboard in front of a class, pointing at code. On the board is written: "Butt(:=0; (:x:(++)" with "{ ... }" below it.
Teacher: "SO, HERE, YOU'LL WANT A... *sigh...* BUTT LOOP."
A student (blond, in the class): "CAN I PUT A BONER ARRAY IN MY BUTT LOOP?"
Teacher: "*sigh...* OF COURSE YOU CAN..."
Votey:
A crudely-drawn man with a weary, deadpan expression. Above/beside him, handwritten text reads: "That's day 1 of" and below in large letters "C8==D++"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one: a stern gray-haired professor shouts, "I don't care if they're child prodigies! I'm not teaching a programming language invented by twelve-year-olds! It's undignified!" A red-haired man replies that it's the most elegant language ever created and everyone's using it. The professor sighs in resignation. Panel two: the professor, defeated, stands at a chalkboard teaching a class, pointing at C-style code, and says "So, here, you'll want a... *sigh* butt loop." A blond student asks, "Can I put a boner array in my butt loop?" The professor sighs again and says "Of course you can..." The humor is that the celebrated new language is built entirely out of crude anatomical puns. Votey (aftercomic): a roughly sketched, exhausted-looking man with the handwritten caption "That's day 1 of C8==D++" — a play on "C++" rendered as a phallic emoticon, naming the absurd language.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.