The name is chosen, because:
For those of you, who have wandered onto this site without really knowing what the XOR-operator is, I can assure you, that it has nothing whatsoever to do with dead chickens, black robes and incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo.
The XOR operator is the logical operator for the Exclusive-OR as opposed to the normal OR-operator meaning either-or-or-maybe-both (a little wishy-washy sort of statement in my opinion)
The truth table for the XOR operator is:
A | B | A XOR B |
---|---|---|
False | False | False |
False | True | True |
True | False | True |
True | True | False |