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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by asclepiades on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:28AM (#3017920)
And in 2060 developers will probably think something like what would think today, if shown a tattoo of "ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y" in the flaccid forearm of a 70-year-old.

Still, much, much better than those at Hanzi Smatter [ http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ ].

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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by camtarn on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:47AM (#3018010)
Speaking for myself, if I saw a COBOL tattoo, I'd most likely think "Duuuude, old school... respect!" ;) Not so sure about JS though - is it perhaps more likely to seem like Visual Basic in 40 years? As a JS monkey myself, though, I like it* :)

As for alternatives... would a Lisp tattoo be better?

* Apart from the i coming out of nowhere, which keeps setting off my this-is-a-bug alarm ;)

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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by asclepiades on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:55PM (#3018369)
Well, I was thinking more about the contrast between the supposed permanence of tattoo and a programming language construct. Now that you have pointed it, however, it might give a certain feeling of "old school" ("self modifying code in COBOL!?") -- and I expect closures to be still "reverenced" in 2060.

And of course a Lisp tattoo would be better! ;)

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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by inoop on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:35PM (#3018271) 

    mov ax,13h
    int 10h
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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by yaongi on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @01:57PM (#3018741)
yeah, nice one.
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Re:Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. by lloeki on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @02:09PM (#3018814)
Interestingly enough Hanzi Smatter focuses on mistakes with Kanji or Chinese, but I guarantee that those french translations of meals are equally hilarious.
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