No easter eggs in curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/12/06 - With the risk of completely ruining my chances of ever being considered a fun person, I’ll take you through my thought process on why curl does not feature any Easter eggs.

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@bagder An Easter egg that actually caused some problems that sound kinda annoying to debug: unix.stackexchange.com/q/40578

`man -w` used to print `gimme gimme gimme` at 00:30, as a reference to the ABBA song.

Seems like that just caused someone's test suite to fail and not like a problem in production, but it is indicative of how unexpected behavior, even if a fun idea, might not be fun for all your users...

@pganssle that is indeed an excellent example showing how a seemingly benign "joke" can end up wasting a lot of time and energy

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