You, like everyone else out there, seem to be making the assumption that I'm a christian, or even religious. I have not idea if god exists or not, I'm an agnostic. I think religion has basically become a destructive and useless vestige of evolution, like man's urge to rape, kill, and war.

But, and this is important, religion is a natural function of humans. Every culture believes in spirits, or magic, or gods - all of which have rituals that require obedience and attention on some level. Atheism has its own dogma and creed that (inadequately) fills that human need.

Atheism lacks a comforting message about the afterlife, but it does make a positive statement about it. Making a positive statement about something we don't understand (and may be incapable of understanding) is an irrational act, and believing it requires an act of faith.

In the original comment I was showing the rules for leap years with psuedo code. In my papal bull I was just showing off my knowledge of the word 'bissextile', did you see how many times I used it?

Sure you could write the code slightly more efficiently by testing the primary case first and the exceptions inside that. On most runs you would avoid 3 failed cmp ops and the pipeline flush that comes with it, but most developers don't care and don't need to care about that sort of thing. By the time you throw in 50 levels of abstraction and libraries do you really think that making the code any harder to read and gaining a slight level of efficiency is worth it?