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Python: Is cute to prefix everything with "py"
Javscript: Haha not as cool as suffix it with "js"
Ruby: Pff i have the coolest nickname and it is "Rails"
Clojure: Oh please, you aren't as classy as "La Clojure"
C: The power of soul and possibility control!
Go:tta Catch 'Em All!
Erlang: ErrrrrrrLang!!!
Haskell: other languages make making mistakes too easy. This article came up about a year ago[1], so I'm just reusing my comment :P. Now I'd also add: Go: C is the prefect language, except it's too low-level. Ermine[2]: Scala is not functional (enough). [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4954663 [2]: https://github.com/ermine-language/ermine
Java as essentially Lisp's bastard child is I think undermentioned in language history.
For Java I would suggest "Lisp is too powerful for Joe Programmer, and parentheses are scary" Java as essentially Lisp's bastard child is I think undermentioned in language history.
For Java I would suggest "Lisp is too powerful for Joe Programmer, and parentheses are scary" Java as essentially Lisp's bastard child is I think undermentioned in language history.
Java: not only those MIT/Stanford smart-asses can code.
Java EE: the way to avoid a drop-out from the field.
Javascript: just learnt .getElementById() now I can write an OS.
Coffeescript: Javascript is too ugly.
For Java I would suggest "Lisp is too powerful for Joe Programmer, and parentheses are scary" Java as essentially Lisp's bastard child is I think undermentioned in language history.
What Lisp influence is there in Java besides garbage collection? They differ on basically every other language design point.
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
Reasonably original-ish source: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m....
Relative to C++, Java is actually a lot like Lisp. Don't forget that objects are a poor man's closures (and vice versa).