If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by yulaow » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

If programming languages were Harry Potter characters
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Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by Amorymeltzer » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

Of course Harry Potter would be Python - He's a parselmouth!

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by ununun » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural language in the world that could be said to be the Scheme of natural languages?

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by mdemare » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

ununun wrote: post #3

What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural language in the world that could be said to be the Scheme of natural languages?

Salamanca Spanish. Of course, there are 30 dialects of Spanish, many of which are incomprehensible, just like lisp.

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by moron4hire » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

This is definitely one of the better examples of these such lists. Usually, they're just two unrelated, ordered lists, individually ranked by the author's personal liking of the things, then zippered together with no attempt to make any sense out of the whole. But this one not only makes some sense, it's even internally consistent!

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by oddevan » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #5

This is definitely one of the better examples of these such lists. Usually, they're just two unrelated, ordered lists, individually ranked by the author's personal liking of the things, then zippered together with no attempt to make any sense out of the whole. But this one not only makes some sense, it's even internally consistent!

They had me at Java being Umbridge.

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by j_m_b » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

aka "What your world looks like when all you know is blub".

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by tux3 » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:21 PM UTC

I'm surprised that people consider C a dead language.

C is very much one of the most used and needed language in the world, especially if the Internet of Things hype keeps on getting stronger. And of course all the current billions of lines of C didn't just disappear to be replaced by Python ( as much as I like Python). Your OS and core programs are still getting new versions from times to times, even if you don't directly see the source code.

Or maybe C is being replaced by some other language that I'm not seeing.

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by IgorPartola » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:22 PM UTC

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #2

Of course Harry Potter would be Python - He's a parselmouth!

I have been toying with the idea of changing the title on my business cards from "Computational Daemonologist" to "Parseltongue" since I do most of my work in Python lately.

Re: If programming languages were Harry Potter characters

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Post by drostie » Thu, Mar 05, 2015, 3:23 PM UTC

ununun wrote: post #3

What about Lisps? Also, it would be interesting to read about comparisons between programming languages and naturals ones. What's the most elegant natural language in the world that could be said to be the Scheme of natural languages?

I was surprised that Common Lisp was not Voldemort. You need something powerful, strange, obsessed with a sort of purity even though it's not so pure itself, and whose name no one dares speak. I guess the C/C++ Voldemort/Snape thing was cool though.