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In a similar vein:

One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.”

Moon patiently told the student the following story:

“One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector...



Disclaimer : Details nobody asked for.

These are one of the jokes originating from MIT AI Lab. And, Moon mentioned here is David Moon - one of the famous hackers from MIT AI lab.

Other such jokes from same origin [1]

[1] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html




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