Superb!
-- Owen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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