have you heard the one about…?

Seeing Frozen the other day, with its ubiquitous images of snowflakes and ice shards, made me think again of fractals and recursion, which in turn reminded me  of the old programming joke:

Q. What’s the definition of recursion?

A. recursion, n, see recursion

Which then reminded me of the other programming joke: there are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t. And that, in turn, led me to a Google search for programming jokes, which led me to this selection, most of which I hadn’t heard before.