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Waiting for Godot is a common occurrence.

I was there for "Isn't that putting Descartes before the whores?" and now this :).

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfbkx/im_85_cert...

I'm sorry to say that this pun was much more obvious than the Descartes one. The latter was just... inspired.

Your downvotes here trouble me --- because I strongly suspect the suspects simply haven't read their Beckett =)

If one feels so inclined to make a single-sentence reference to some obscure play, care can be take to make the reference just a little off, so to nudge the reader into questioning the sentence's plain meaning.

That being said, I appreciate your reference to [1]. I wonder if this is actually the engine's namesake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

Waiting for Godot is hardly obscure.

I wonder if this is actually the engine's namesake.

According to Wikipedia:

> Linietsky stated in a presentation that the name Godot was chosen due to its relation to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.

This is a humorless place. I'm a masochist. ;-)

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