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I see almost no one disagreeing about having no easter eggs in curl on this site.



Maybe we can start one up? Here, I'll have a go:

"I'm a pro-easter egg ideologue and will tolerate no software that does not contain such silliness, nor should any other rational, stable, intelligent person!"

There, now it's your turn.


Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!


I'm not sure how you knew all if that about me, but the accuracy is astonishing!

But unless I know your position on Easter eggs then I cannot accurately determine to hate you or not.


Easter eggs require the easter Bunny. Bunnies don't lay eggs. Therefore easter eggs don't egg-sist.

Q.E.D.


Hmm, I'm not sure we've done this whole "flame war" thing properly. Well, there's always next time.


sl


Easter Eggs are fun. What's life without a little whimsy?


Almost all people love easter eggs, including myself.

But having them in heavily used security critical programs like curl is just asking for a heartbleed/log4j/etc type incident.


Life is what happens between fixing issues caused by other people's "easter eggs"


Imo, if half your programs flags aren't undocumented easter eggs that print witty quotes then you're missing the entire point of computer science.




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