Item:
Why did the programmer quit his job?
Because he didn’t get arrays.
General Information about Item:
- Oral Folklore: joke
- English
- USA
Informant Data:
George Hito is a Caucasian, 20 year old, Dartmouth CS and engineering double major in the class of 2018, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Contextual Data:
Computer Science has many different data structures and an array is a very common one. A data structure is a convenient way to organize large amounts of data or information. It makes things easier to retrieve and process.
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“Why did the programmer quit his job?”
Informant’s Comments:
The interviewee first heard this joke when he was researching for a computer science project he had in middle school. He was looking for a way to start the presentation so he could lighten up the audience and perhaps get them a little more involved during the presentation. He thought a joke was a good way to do this.
Collector’s Comments:
This joke can be classified as verbal folklore. This could be classified as a joke because it is uses wordplay when the audience expects a different answer. People commonly quit their job because they don’t get a “raise”, or an increase in the money they get paid from their job. In this joke however, humor is used when the word “arrays” is used instead. Both words sound similar but an array is a way to organize data structures while a raise is something completely different but similar sounding.
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