Dances With Smurfs was a common comparison at the time.

Dancing with Smurfs is a breed of blueberries.

Elliot Bay is a shadow of what it used to be when it was in Pioneer Square.

We should all take the train to Powell's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_Books

Which one? The original one in Chicago or that other one in Portland?

Elliott Bay is in Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Bay

Sounds complex.

Wolfram Language?

That's a standard gimmick for troupes that do both plays.

SE management is so fixated on jumping on the current bandwagon by adding AI "features" that the site's community absolutely doesn't want... the disconnect and utter ignoring of feedback is staggering.

All while continuing to not allow AI in Q&A.

Bad idea to delve too deep into the binary.

"The dwarves debugged too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of GDB-dum... stack corruption and flame.“

"The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Unix. Go back to the Segfault! You cannot crash."

SE sells just such a thing. I think it's where a lot of their income comes from.

C uses ^ for bitwise xor and a function for exponentiation, though.

No, C does not have an exponentiation operator! Possibly you meant "and not a function for exponentiation".

I should have said "followed Fortran rather than BASIC".

I meant exactly what I said. C uses a function for exponentiation. Nothing that uses ^ for powers follows C's lead.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/math/pow.html

Oh, I interpreted "a function for exponentiation" as being part of a list of things C uses ^ for. It didn't even occur to me that the sentence had an alternative parsing where it was part of a list of things C uses. C does indeed use a function for exponentiation. And time flies like an arrow!

He's explaining that C was not the reason for picking * over ^

He thinks he's Tony Stark but he's actually Justin Hammer.