The Linker is not a Magical Program

[Daniel Keep]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> A rant I wrote a few months ago:
>>>
>>> http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Linker_Is_not_a_Magical_Program 
>> For reference, GNU ld has to be compiled with -linvisible-pink-unicorn.
> 
> How can you know its pink if its also invisible?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_pink_unicorn

Quoteth:

The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion
used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is
paradoxically both invisible and pink. This makes her a rhetorical
illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics.

The IPU is used to argue that supernatural beliefs are arbitrary by, for
example, replacing the word God in any theistic statement with Invisible
Pink Unicorn. The mutually exclusive attributes of pinkness and
invisibility, coupled with the inability to disprove the IPU's
existence, is intended to satirize what IPU proponents claim are
contradictions in properties that some theists attribute to a theistic
deity.

...

"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know
this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same
time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is
based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we
logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
  — Steve Eley