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I feel the omission of smalltalk is just further evidence of it's true strength considering it inspired so many of the attributes of the other religions yet still persists unknown to the masses as the true religion with no religion behind all religion.
Is that really true? I've never heard anything like that about Ruby. It does, however, sound very much like PHP. From the PHP FAQs:
"Much of [PHP's] syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in."
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As the original poster stated, please don't kill me if you are offended. Its aim was humor. Bit of a tangent, but I never understand why people say this. Don't they know that humor is one of the most potent weapons? If someone is offended, will they be less offended that they are regarded as laughable? (Tangent to the tangent - this reminds me a little of Jon Stewart hiding behind "But I'm only a comedian" every time…
"Ruby - A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified as a language." Is that really true? I've never heard anything like that about Ruby. It does, however, sound very much like PHP. From the PHP FAQs: "Much of [PHP's] syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in."
"Lisp would be Zen Buddhism" & "Python would be Humanism" I feel strangely peaceful.
As soon as I saw the title, I knew Lisp would be Zen. I don't think that takes any thought -- regardless of their actual qualities, they have the same mystique.
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Consciousness is a bug.
? I meant QM not including General Relativity etc. I think this joke has been stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/today-on-offworld-13.ht...
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As soon as I saw the title, I knew Lisp would be Zen. I don't think that takes any thought -- regardless of their actual qualities, they have the same mystique.
I had a slightly different take on it: Scheme as Zen, and CL as Tibetan Buddhism, which has added deities and other more complicated theology back into Buddhism, sort of like the complexity of CL.
What does that make javascript then?
"Ruby - A mixture of different languages and ideas that was beaten together into something that might be identified as a language." Is that really true? I've never heard anything like that about Ruby. It does, however, sound very much like PHP. From the PHP FAQs: "Much of [PHP's] syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in."
You could make the case. To me, Ruby looks like a strange hybrid of Python, SmallTalk, and Perl.