How To Say No (In Programming Logic)

The eternal programming tragedy: in English, "!yes" is a weird way to say "no," but in code, it's literally the opposite of "yes." The poor programmer reads "!yes" as "not yes" (FALSE) when the person meant an excited "yes!" Now they're crying while the English speaker happily moves on. Classic language barrier between humans and machines that's been causing relationship disasters since the first semicolon.