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Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 2:28 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #13

atleastoptimal wrote: post #12

Making a programming language prone to bugs/frustrating to work with makes one possibly a stochastic serial killer

I mean instead of killing entire people, what if you kill a small fraction of thousands of people?

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Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by temeya » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 2:35 AM UTC

7/10, so a pass. But as others have pointed out, everything in the photographs (from lighting to the angle of the subject) tells nothing about the subject. Unless you've seen pictures before, you wouldn't know, and even then you wouldn't know. People don't matter. Your perception of them DOES matter and that can change from things such as a single photograph.

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by avodonosov » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:00 AM UTC

8/10

I thought one photo was of Larry Wall, but that was a similary looking murderer (and a programmer, but not known to invent any language)

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by Ericson2314 » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:02 AM UTC

Rieser FS Reiser, did he make any PLs?

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by kasperset » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:02 AM UTC

I scored 8 out of 10! Was fun

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by avodonosov » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:04 AM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #24

Correction: programming language inventor or convicted serial killer

known programmer language inventor

(some of the maniacs could have secretly designed prograrming languages too)

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by daxvena » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:10 AM UTC

I feel like I gamed this somehow. Instead of looking for serial killers, I looked for anyone who didn't look like a programming language inventor and got 10/10.

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by Jigsy » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

naniwaduni wrote: post #68

Jigsy wrote: post #29

2/10. Surprised that Hans Reiser wasn't on the list. (Or I didn't see him.)

As far as we're aware, he doesn't belong to either category (yet).

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

I keep forgetting he killed just his wife, not his kids as well.

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by Jigsy » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:13 AM UTC

djmips wrote: post #47

Jigsy wrote: post #29

2/10. Surprised that Hans Reiser wasn't on the list. (Or I didn't see him.)

wow you are almost exactly backwards. do you hate language inventors?

Not really. I just assumed nearly everyone was a programmer.

"Wow, what a sweet old lady. I'm guessing she invented Fortra-- oh, she, murdered people for their social security checks."

Re: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)

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Post by gorgoiler » Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 3:19 AM UTC

Rob Pike, Canadian inventor of Golang, an imperative language with a focus on channel based concurrency

…aka a “serial” killer.

Sorry.