torture bill summed up in C

[cellio]

From patrissimo, who got it from others:

It occurs to me now that the whole 94-page bill really amounts to a common, one-character programming error.

if (person = terrorist) {
   punish_severely();
   } else {
     exit(-1);
   }

Comments

[schulman.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful.

(For tragically depressing values of beautiful.)

[cellio]

That was about my reaction, too.