The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully)

Posted by dpapathanasiou on Monday October 08, 2007 @09:54AM
from the davidrupp.blogspot.com dept.

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by Xichekolas on Monday October 08, 2007 @12:30PM (#64822)

The COBOL part made Coke come out of my nose.

The bash part was also brilliant.

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by garbowza on Monday October 08, 2007 @04:41PM (#64956)

Lisp's closure at the end was fantastic!

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by jkush on Monday October 08, 2007 @10:24AM (#64771)

Haha! I loved the first comment (by innervision).

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by pc on Monday October 08, 2007 @10:37PM (#65084)

I'm waiting for the day when someone cracks jokes about Lisp that don't involve parens. Still, 50 years on, I'm really not holding my breath.

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by jamesbritt on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:04PM (#64848)

It's cute, in a faddish sort of way. Doesn't quite work as a troll, nor as good satire.

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by ptn on Monday October 08, 2007 @02:46PM (#64917)

I missed Python. :-( Assembly language would've been awesome too.

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by lst on Monday October 08, 2007 @04:48PM (#64960)

What is 'Python'? Should I've heard about him/her/it?

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by ptn on Monday October 08, 2007 @11:26PM (#65111)

Yes, you should have. Go do your reading :-)

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by cstejerean on Monday October 08, 2007 @04:54PM (#64961)

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by lst on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @07:51AM (#65219)

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by cstejerean on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @01:38AM (#65679)

that's even cooler

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Re:The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Eve... by khoerling on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @12:35AM (#65129)

perl says, '$_="krJhruaesrltre c a cnP,ohet";$_.=$1,print$2while s/(..)(.)//;'

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