Another look at language comparisons

[Pierre Quentel]

http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-microsoft-can-blow-off-with-c.html

[Michael Sparks]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

Pierre Quentel wrote:
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> http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-m...ff-with-c.html[/color]

I almost didn't look at this, but I'm glad I did - quite a fun comparison,
nicely arbitrary and reminds me of RFC in a similar vein :)


Michael.

[beliavsky@aol.com]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

>From the web site:
"Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#? These people have thought up
programming languages Fortran, Prologue, Ada."

The author is ignorant. Fortran was invented by IBM in the late 1950s,
long before Microsoft existed. Ada was commissioned by the U.S.
Department of Defense in the 1970s. The Prolog programming language is
not spelled "Prologue".

[Jan Dries]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

beliavsky@aol.c om wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>>From the web site:[/color]
> "Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#? These people have thought up
> programming languages Fortran, Prologue, Ada."
>
> The author is ignorant. Fortran was invented by IBM in the late 1950s,
> long before Microsoft existed. Ada was commissioned by the U.S.
> Department of Defense in the 1970s. The Prolog programming language is
> not spelled "Prologue".[/color]

I don't think that "these people" is refering to Microsoft. Instead, it
is refering to the three pictures below the text. I assume they are the
pictures of the respective authors of these languages.

The bottom line of the article is that languages authored by men with
beards are more successful than those authored by people without beards.
At least the anecdotical evidence to that is overwhelming :-)

And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
beard :-)

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/-big/IMG_3061.jpg

Regards,
Jan

[Max M]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

Jan Dries wrote:[color=blue]
> beliavsky@aol.c om wrote:
> And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
> beard :-)
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20...g/IMG_3061.jpg[/color]

LOL, he is working on linux, isn't he?

So it was about bloody time.

--

hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

http://www.mxm.dk/

IT's Mad Science

[Rick Parsons]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:18:15 +0100, Jan Dries wrote:

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>
> The bottom line of the article is that languages authored by men with
> beards are more successful than those authored by people without beards.
> At least the anecdotical evidence to that is overwhelming :-)
>
> And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
> beard :-)
> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20...g/IMG_3061.jpg
>
> Regards,
> Jan[/color]



What about languages USED by men with beards? There may be hope for me
yet.

Regards,
Rick

[Jon Perez]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

Max M wrote:[color=blue]
> Jan Dries wrote:
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>> beliavsky@aol.c om wrote:
>> And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
>> beard :-)
>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20...g/IMG_3061.jpg[/color]
>
>
> LOL, he is working on linux, isn't he?
>
> So it was about bloody time.[/color]

Guido Van Rossum is now working on linux??

[Bengt Richter]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:54:49 +0800, Jon Perez <jbperez808@wah oo.com> wrote:
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>Max M wrote:[color=green]
>> Jan Dries wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> beliavsky@aol.c om wrote:
>>> And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
>>> beard :-)
>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20...g/IMG_3061.jpg[/color]
>>
>>
>> LOL, he is working on linux, isn't he?
>>
>> So it was about bloody time.[/color]
>
>Guido Van Rossum is now working on linux??[/color]

Are they both left-handed? Hm, sinister ...

Regards,
Bengt Richter

[Terry Reedy]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

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>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/20...g/IMG_3061.jpg[/color][/color][/color]

Here is the link giving the context for that picture

http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/DynamicJava

The other person is Larry Wall. Samuele Pedroni is in the next one.
A rather interesting meeting.

Terry J. Reedy

[Jon Perez]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

Anyone know of a cached copy where the photos are present?

The whole thing makes little sense with the photos gone.

Pierre Quentel wrote:[color=blue]
> http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-m...ff-with-c.html[/color]

[Terry Reedy]

Re: Another look at language comparisons


"Jon Perez" <jbperez808@wah oo.com> wrote in message
news:34llf5F4ap ou6U2@individua l.net...[color=blue]
> Anyone know of a cached copy where the photos are present?
>
> The whole thing makes little sense with the photos gone.
>
> Pierre Quentel wrote:[color=green]
>> http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-m...ff-with-c.html[/color][/color]

It would hardly make more sense with the photos.

"Not the law is clear? There is a beard - there is a success.
There is no beard - you are guilty. "

Terry J. Reedy

[Jon Perez]

Re: Another look at language comparisons

Terry Reedy wrote:
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> It would hardly make more sense with the photos.[/color]

The photos would be graphic evidence and would make
it more entertaining to read through.

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> "Not the law is clear? There is a beard - there is a success.
> There is no beard - you are guilty. "
>
> Terry J. Reedy[/color]

And what about the moustache issue and Grace
Hopper (COBOL is/was a very popular language but
very much maligned and criticized like Perl and
BASIC whose creators had moustaches instead of
beards) ?

Also, what about C#? AFAIK, Heljsberg has neither
beard nor moustache, or is he sprouting one now (no
pic to confirm...)?