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Re:If programming languages were Harry Potter characters by drostie on Thursday March 05, 2015 @10:23AM (#9151206)
I was surprised that Common Lisp was not Voldemort. You need something powerful, strange, obsessed with a sort of purity even though it's not so pure itself, and whose name no one dares speak. I guess the C/C++ Voldemort/Snape thing was cool though.
Re:If programming languages were Harry Potter characters by samatman on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:13AM (#9151595)
For me, Common Lisp will always be Howl's Moving Castle.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...