I think we need a David Letterman/Jimmy Fallon top 10/thank you list of programming languages:
Ruby - thank you the slowest implementation of really cool concepts ever made Python - thank you for never sorting any list of anything before the UI window turns grey C++ - thank you for all the features I can never remember how to use C - thank you for allowing me to cast integers to pointers even when I should have gone to sleep instead Java - thank you for collecting more garbage than any programmer ever should have been allowed to make Fortran - thank you for 40 years of non-recursive functions Perl - thank you for teaching my daughter the inscrutability of if statements interpolated into expressions Php and Sql - thank you for all those web site implementations that no one will ever get right VisualBasic and C# - thank you for all those killer apps that never got written for windows Javascript - thank you for hanging in there when no one believed you really were a programming language -- rec --
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