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Stupidly, I missed Ruby/Python from going too quickly right at the beginning. Then missed Ada/VHDL from never having heard of VHDL, and I thought "oh, looks like Ada." Anyway, fun stuff. I laughed when Piet came up.
Got 14/15 but I have a feeling it was only because I made the assumption I would not see the same language twice. Without that assumption a few were toss ups for me. Of all the languages on there the only one in that set I had never used / seen at all is Kotin and that's the one I got wrong. Several of them were mandatory for me to learn in college but I haven't seen since. (looking at you, Prolog and Verilog... Veri…
Stupidly, I missed Ruby/Python from going too quickly right at the beginning. Then missed Ada/VHDL from never having heard of VHDL, and I thought "oh, looks like Ada." Anyway, fun stuff. I laughed when Piet came up.
Well, VHDL was heavily inspired by Ada, given they both came out of DoD contracts around the same time...
Got 14/15 but I have a feeling it was only because I made the assumption I would not see the same language twice. Without that assumption a few were toss ups for me. Of all the languages on there the only one in that set I had never used / seen at all is Kotin and that's the one I got wrong. Several of them were mandatory for me to learn in college but I haven't seen since. (looking at you, Prolog and Verilog... Veri…
I also scored 14/15 - got PHP wrong I thought it was Perl which is slightly embarrassing as I've never used PHP but I have used Perl.
Which isn't saying much.
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I also missed Kotlin. A lot of them could be inferred from what the code is doing. For example, PHP and Perl are sometimes really hard to distinguish, but I was able to get PHP right by deciding that "this ain't what a Perl hacker would write". Same with Ada v. VHDL.
Missed Kotlin here too. I also missed one where I guessed Haskell when it was actually Prolog. I feel like this quiz was much more about how much you've dabbled at surface level in various languages, enough or not enough to remember specific details to aid in process of elimination. For example, I knew what GLSL stood for, so the picture was most definitely not GLSL. And I had at one point written Scheme and looked i…
Ahhhhhh! APL and Piet I didn't feel bad about (as I have never seen either) But VHDL vs Ada! Bad miss on my part. 12/15 is not too bad I guess....
> Just as the ++ in the name C++ is intended to imply that C++ is a step above C, the # in the name C# is intended to resemble two ++ operators stacked on each other, indicating that C# is a step above C++. I've sort of followed C# since it was released, and never realized this.
I would occasionally call it Db (D-flat) to be an arse.
I'm not sure if there was a formalized reasoning behind the name or if what I heard was just a rationalisation.