If Programming Languages Were Cars...

dserban

Aug 18 2007, 09:53 AM

This is a very funny article about computer languages being like cars:

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html

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toby

Aug 18 2007, 01:10 PM

Don't know more than half of them, but thats really good. Nice find.

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Quatrux

Aug 18 2007, 02:14 PM

Those were quite good, most of the languages which I know or at least heard about were funny, but the unknown ones, which syntax or objective I don't know, was quite uninteresting reading, for example Forth or Erlang, never heard them, never saw them, never used them, so those cars aren't for me

Very funny in some way

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Jeigh

Aug 18 2007, 04:27 PM

Bahahaha those are awesome! Prolog, Lisp, and assembly were probably my favorites haha. Having a monadic version for haskell killed me. Knowing the languages I assume helps alot

The only one I didn't know/get was erlang or whatever, heard of it but dont know enough to get the joke.

Nice find

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vizskywalker

Oct 16 2007, 05:36 AM

These are good, although missing some languages I think that could be good. For example, whitespace, brainf**k and so on. Also, apparently Visual Basic is communist (In Soviet Russia, car drive you)!.

~Viz

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HannahI

Nov 18 2009, 12:41 AM

That is funny, but strange. I bet it's double funny in Russian.

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