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Beware the IDEs of March (libranet.de)

submitted 7 months ago by fu@libranet.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Can someone explain this joke to me?

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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Xcode is an IDE, this version being released in March.

The Ides of March is the day Julius Caesar was assassinated.

I think that's all there is to the joke, unless I'm also missing something.

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[–] TechnoCat@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago

thank you

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

That.... Is a very deep joke, would not have gotten it without the explanation

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[–] fu@libranet.de [S] 1 point 7 months ago

@Evkob @TechnoCat yep, that's it. Well, save yesterday was the ides of march, so that's why i posted it hen.

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