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

[jducoeur]

That is beautifully subtle. I know C well, and it still took a minute for the "pun" to sink in. (It's playing on the nuances and ambiguities of the language, therefore it's a pun. A double-entendre, even...)