Re:Wat
by jh3 on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:45PM
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Really? You don't think this is funny at all? Maybe it's because I'm in my mid twenties, but I think my father would even find this funny and he knows little to none about programming.
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My (non programmer) wife found this hysterical. It reinforced her belief that programming is stupid. :)
The humor is playing on an inclination to laugh at things we don't understand, which seems counter to the hacker ethos. Software is hard, and there may be deep reasons in the dynamic type systems that cause these languages to work like this, or there may not be, but either way this type of thing is interesting and seems to demand some further explanation and/or justification. I find it interesting but don't get the humor. Perhaps, as you implied, I'm just too old.
Re:Wat
by michaelfeathers on Thursday January 26, 2012 @10:33PM
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> The humor is playing on an inclination to laugh at things we don't understand
I think is simply laughing at absurdity: the gulf between intention and actuality. We have quite a bit of that.