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Miscommunications of the ACM

"All the news that's fit to ABSTAIN FROM"
Vol. LIII, No. 1 · March 2026 · Price: ####0
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Area Programmer Reports Debugger 'Made It Worse' By Showing What Code Actually Does

"I was happier not knowing," says local developer.

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VS Code Doesn't Deserve This, Claim Outraged Citizens

"It was a perfectly good editor before this," says petition organizer.

Area Man Neglects Family, Ships Compiler

"He's been muttering about COME FROM loops in his sleep."

Language No One Asked For Ships Update No One Needed

Announcement of 64-bit INTERCAL compiler and debugger stuns industry watchers. "I didn't think I wanted this," said onlooker, "but now that I see it, I definitely don't want it."
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Local Man Solves Knight's Tour In Language Designed To Be Unusable

570 lines. 64 squares. 30 seconds. "I don't know why I did this."

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Area Woman Concerned This Actually Seems To Be Real

"There's a formal proof. There are papers. I think they're serious," reports visibly shaken computer scientist.

Nation's Most Unnecessary Tutorial Now Available For Nation's Most Unnecessary Language

17 programs. Whether you wanted to learn is not the compiler's concern.

Discord Server For Language With Fewer Than 100 Living Programmers Opens To General Public

"ABSTAIN FROM CALCULATING is a valid conversation topic."