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And obviously you all have not been blessed by his noodly appendages, but I shall not go and spread our sacred gospel, he shall come and touch you with his noodliness and you shall instantly convert.
And here I would consider PHP the defintion of going to hell :)
his comments on C are completely unfounded. C's type coercion means you can ram all sorts of things into places they aren't supposed to go. typecasting says to me that there is nothing orthodox about C at all. if anything it is modern protestantism, a faith that lets you ram in whatever you want, but one wrong move and you go to hell (segfault)
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Yeah, Perl sucks. Instead of making me rewrite libraries, I have to actually work on the problem I want to solve, 'cause the libraries already work. I hate being productive!!1!
Using the words PERL and productive without a not qualifier in the same sentence opens up some sort of alternate universe time warp that is so dangerous it should be avoided at all costs.
I've read many analyses of languages: their pros and cons, how much better I would think if I used them, how much more efficient I would be if I used them, how much cooler I would be if I used them. But nothing was enough to convince to change. Until this. Fundamentalist Christianity. Well, goddamn. How can I distribute desktop apps in Lisp? :)
Use Factor, the postfix Lisp.
"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.
* Syntax is an illusion, created by our own subjective definitions of words.
* All suffering (stack management trouble) is caused by the desire for and attachment to the worldly concept of variables.
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.
What does that make javascript then?
Javascript would be some kind of new-agey pop religion. It looks at first like Christianity or Judaism, but it somehow brings in funky zen concepts like lambdas and prototype chains. No one really took it seriously, then one day, it was just everywhere . No two implementations are quite the same, and most people do it horribly.
"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."