The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread

[Gąska]

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[LB_]

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[RaceProUK]

Shamelessly stolen from http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html :

It's long

• 370 JCL
  • You send your foot down to MIS and include a 300-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Two years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.
  • You shoot yourself in the head just thinking about it.
  • You find the first building you're in in the phone book, then find your office number in the corporate phone book. Then you have to write this down and describe, in cubits, your exact location in relation to the door (the right side thereof). Then you need to write down the location of the gun (loading it is a proprietary utility), then you load it, and the COBOL program, and run them, and with luck, it may be run tonight.
• Ada
  • If you are dumb enough to actually use this language, the United States Department of Defense will kidnap you, stand you up in front of a firing squad, and tell the soldiers, "Shoot at his feet."
  • After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.
  • You scour all 156e54 pages of the manuals, looking for references to `foot`, `leg`, or `toe`; then you get hopelessly confused and give up. You sneak in when the boss isn't around and finally write the damn thing in C. You turn in 7,689 pages of source code to the review committee, knowing they'll never look at it, and when the program needs maintenance, you quit.
• Algol
  • You shoot yourself in the foot with a Civil War-era musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.
• Algol 60
  • You spend hours trying to figure out how to fire the gun because it has no provisions for input or output.
• Algol 68
  • You mildly deprocedure the gun, the bullet gets firmly dereferenced, and your foot is strongly coerced to void.
• APL
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.
  • You hear a gunshot and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.
  • `@#&^$%&%^ foot`
• APT
  • You cut a perfect bullethole in your foot and shoot through it.
• ASP
  • You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the most advanced thing you can manage is to cut your wrist.
• Assembly
  • You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.
  • You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the system administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rapidly shooting at everyone in sight.
  • By the time you've written the gun, you are dead, and don't have to worry about shooting your feet. Alternatively, you shoot and miss, but don't notice.
  • Using only 7 bytes of code, you blow off your entire leg in only 2 CPU clock ticks.
• BASIC
  • Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.
• BCPL
  • You shoot yourself somewhere in the leg; you can't get any finer resolution than that.
• C
  • You shoot yourself in the foot.
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and then nobody else can figure out what you did.
• C++
  • You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."
• C#
  • You shoot yourself in the foot, but first have to switch to unsafe mode.
  • You forget precisely how to use the .NET interface and shoot yourself in the foot. You sue Microsoft for damages.
• Clipper
  • You grab a bullet, get ready to insert it in the gun so that you can shoot yourself in the foot, and discover that the gun that the bullet fits has not yet been built, but should be arriving in the mail real soon now.
• COBOL
  • USEing a COLT.45 HANDGUN, AIM GUN at LEG.FOOT, THEN PLACE ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN RETURN HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether SHOELACE needs to be retied.
  • Allocate $500,000 for the project. Define `foot`, `bullet`, `gun`. Run `press_trigger`. Go for coffee break. Return in time to put foot under bullet.
  • You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun won't fire unless it's aligned in column 8.
• Concurrent Euclid
  • You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.
• CP/M
  • You remember when shooting yourself in the foot with a BB gun was a big deal.
• CSS
  • Everyone can now shoot themselves in the foot, but all their feet come out looking identical and attached to their ears.
• dBase
  • You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.
  • You squeeze the trigger, but someone corrupted the index and the bullet shoots you in the eye.
  • You squeeze the trigger, but the bullet moves so slowly that by the time your foot feels the pain you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway.
• DCL
  • `$ MOUNT/DENSITY=.45/LABEL=BULLET/MESSAGE="BYE" BULLET::BULLET$GUN SYS$BULLET
    $ SET GUN/LOAD/SAFETY=OFF/SIGHT=NONE/HAND=LEFT/CHAMBER=1/ACTION=AUTOMATIC/LOG/ALL/GULL SYS$GUN_3$DUA3:[000000] GUN.GUN
    $ SHOOT/LOG/AUTO SYS$GUN SYS$SYSTEM:[FOOT] FOOT.FOOT
    %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image GUN
    -CLI-E-IMGNAME image file $3$DUA240:[GUN] GUN.EXE;1
    -IMGACT-F-NOTNATIVE, image is not an OpenVMS Alpha AXP image`
• Delphi
  • You try to shoot yourself in the foot but discover that the bullets you already had are not compatible with the new gun version, but Borland promises a fix real soon now.
• Eiffel
  • You create a GUN object, two FOOT objects, and a BULLET object. The GUN passes both the FOOT objects as a reference to the BULLET. The FOOT objects increment their hole counts and forget about the BULLET. A little demon then drives a garbage truck over your feet and grabs the bullet (both of it) on the way.
  • You take out a contract on your foot. The precondition is that there's a bullet in the gun; the postcondition is that there's a hole in your foot.
• English
  • You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.
• Forth
  • Foot in yourself shoot.
  • First you decide to leave the number of toes lost on the stack and then implement the word `foot-toes@` which takes three numbers from the stack: foot number, range, and projectile mass (in slugs) and changes the current vocabulary to `blue`. While testing this word you are arrested by the police for mooning (remember, this is a bottom-up language) who demonstrate the far better top-down approach to damaging yourself.
  • `BULLET DUP3 * GUN LOAD FOOT AIM TRIGGER PULL BANG EMIT DEAD IF DROP ROT THEN`. This takes about five bytes of memory, executes in two to ten clock cycles on any processor, and can be used to replace any existing function of the language as well as in any future words. Welcome to bottom-up programming, where you too can perform compiler pre-processing instead of actually writing code.
• FORTRAN
  • You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets or toes, you continue anyway because no exception processing was anticipated.
• Haskell
  • On a warm Saturday afternoon, sitting by the pool with a margarita, you casually sit up from your chaise lounge chair, reach over and pick up a gun, aim at your foot, and lazily pull the trigger.
  • You shoot yourself in the foot very elegantly, and wonder why the whole world isn't shooting itself this way.
  • You spend several hours creating a new copy of the Universe which is identical to the existing one except your foot has a hole in it. You then hear that it can be done more elegantly with Dyadic Functile Hyper-Arrows, but the very act of reading some of the included sample code causes one of your metatarsals to explode.
• HTML
  • You cut a bullethole in your foot with nothing more than a small penknife, but you realize that to make it look convincing, you need to be using Dreamweaver.
• HyperTalk
  • Put the first bullet of the gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.
  • You describe how to shoot yourself in the foot, which not only happens, but you also get cool visual effects.
  • As of HyperTalk 2.2, you cannot shoot yourself in the foot from within the stack; you must write this functionality into an XCMD or XFCN. However, we anticipate this functionality to be incorporated into the next major release.
• IDL
  • You easily shoot yourself in the foot, complete with neat little graphs showing the trajectory of the bullet and the result of the impact. After twenty hours and ten thousand lines of code, your friend proudly announces that he has accomplished the same thing in an Excel spreadsheet.
• Java
  • You write a program to shoot yourself in the foot and put it on the Internet. People all over the world shoot themselves in the foot, and everyone leaves your website hobbling and cursing.
  • You amputate your foot at the ankle with a fourteen-pound hacksaw, but you can do it on any platform.
• JavaScript
  • You find that Microsoft and Sun have released incompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of Foot objects implemented in the past in many other languages, you cannot get access to one. But, seeing as JavaScript is so cool, you don't care and go around shooting anything else you can find.
• LaTeX
  • `compy$ more foot_shooting.tex
    
    \documentclass[12pt]{article}
    \usepackage{latexgun,latexshoot}
    \begin{document}
    See how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot? \\
    \gun[leftfoot]{shoot} \\
    \pain
    \end{document}
    
    compy$ latex foot_shooting
    ...
    line 6: undefined control sequence \pain`
• Lisp
  • You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...
  • You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun jams on a stray parenthesis.
• Linux
  • You shoot yourself in the foot with a Gnu.
• Logo
  • You can easily shoot the gun, but you have to work out the geometry to make sure the bullet goes into your foot.
• Mac OS (System 7)
  • Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Bad F-line instruction."
• Mac OS (System 7.1)
  • Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Error of type 1 has occurred."
• Mac OS 9
  • Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a window appears with the message "You need to install the latest version of CarbonLib. Should I get it for you?" You click "Yes" and your computer hangs.
• Mac OS X
  • You try to shoot yourself in the foot from the GUI but the gun has inexplicably turned into a bag of Skittles.
  • You open up the Terminal, type `sudo shoot -p ~/Library/BodyParts/Preferences/foot.plist`, and your kernel panics.
• Matlab
  • You shoot yourself in the foot five times from the command prompt before you can put your foot in an m file.
  • Once your foot is in an m file you shoot it fifty more ways effortlessly and then plot the results.
  • Eventually you can't afford to continue shooting yourself in the foot this way, so you graduate to less elegant ways of shooting yourself in the foot with Excel.
• Modula-2
  • After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in the language, you shoot yourself in the head.
• MOO
  • You ask a wizard for a pair of hands. After lovingly hand-crafting the generic gun and generic bullet, you flag the objects as fertile and then tell everyone they can now shoot themselves in the foot.
• Motif
  • You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.
• MS-DOS
  • You finally find the gun, but you can't find the file with the bullets for the life of you.
  • You shoot yourself in the foot, but you can unshoot yourself with add-on software.
• MPW
  • Because you don't actually have a gun, you write an imitation UNIX shell and shoot yourself in the foot using Pascal.
• .NET
  • You can now shoot yourself in the foot with any of fourteen weapons, ranging from an antique medieval crossbow to a laser-guided Destructo-Beam. However, all these weapons must be manufactured by Microsoft and you must pay Microsoft royalties every time you shoot yourself in the foot.
• Objective-C
  • You write a protocol for shooting yourself in the foot so that all people can get shot in their feet.
• Occam
  • You shoot both your feet with several guns at once.
• Oracle
  • You decide to shoot yourself in the foot, so you go out and buy a gun, but the gun won't work without "deploying" a shoulder holster solution, relational titanium-alloy bullets, body armor infrastructure, a laser sight assistant, a retractable arm stock application, and an enterprise team of ballistic experts and a chiropodist.
  • The menus for coding `foot_shooting` have not been implemented yet, and you can't do `foot_shooting` in SQL.
• Paradox
  • Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.
• Pascal
  • The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.
  • The gun is mounted such that it cannot point towards your feet, but you can swivel it round and shoot yourself in the head instead.
• Perl
  • You separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized `regexp`, and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs. However, the program fails to run and you can't correct it since you don't understand what the hell it is you've written.
  • You stab yourself in the foot repeatedly with an incredibly large and very heavy Swiss Army knife.
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and then decide it was so much fun that you invent another six completely different ways to do it.
  • There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot that you post a query to `comp.lang.perl.misc` to determine the optimal approach. After sifting through 500 replies (which you accomplish with a short Perl script), not to mention the cross-posts to the `perl5-porters` mailing list for which you upgraded your first sifter into a package, which of course you uploaded to CPAN for others who might have a similar problem (which, of course, is the problem of sorting out e-mail and news, not the problem of shooting yourself in the foot), you set to the task of simply and elegantly shooting yourself in the foot, until you discover that, while it works fine in most cases, NT, VMS, and various flavors of Linux, AIX, and Irix all let you shoot you in the foot sooner than your Perl script could.
• PHP
  • Three thousand people line up on your apartment's welcome mat and demand to be shot in their feet. One by one, you oblige them, but halfway through, the `http` connection times out and the crowd lynches you.
• PicoSpan
  • You can't shoot yourself in the foot because you're not a host.
  • Whenever you shoot yourself in the foot, someone opens a topic in policy about it.
• PL/1
  • After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new mainframes, and drops the original on your foot.
• PostScript
  • `foot bullets 6 locate loadgun aimgun shoot showpage`
• Prolog
  • You tell your program you wish to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't allow it to explain.
  • Your program tries to shoot you in the foot, but you die of old age before the bullet leaves the gun.
• Python
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and then brag for hours about how much more elegantly you did it than if you had been using C or (God forbid) Perl.
  • You create a gun module, a gun class, a foot module, and a foot class. After realizing you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear.
• Revelation
  • You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.
• Ruby
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and then have to justify it to all your friends who are still naively using Perl.
• SAS
  • You spend three hours trying to cut your way through your foot with a rock flake, only to realize that the language was invented before guns allowed you to shoot yourself in the foot interactively in one easy step with no programming.
  • You have no idea that the gun, the bullet, or your foot exists. The gun is locked in a safe in a bank vault on the other side of the galaxy, the bullet is locked in a safe in a bank vault in another galaxy, and the people who know the combinations for the safes and bank vaults died ten million years ago. Still, the gun goes off and fires the bullet through your foot.
• Scheme
  • You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...but none of the other appendages are aware this is happening.
  • You vaguely remember something from your Comp Sci 101 class about shooting yourself in the foot, but why should you waste your time shooting yourself using a functional programming language?
• sh, csh, etc.
  • You can't remember the syntax for anything so you spend five hours reading man pages before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.
• SmallTalk
  • You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a character terminal.
  • You shoot yourself in the foot and your foot sends `doesNotUnderstand: Pain` to your brain.
  • You daydream repeatedly about shooting yourself in the foot.
• SML/NJ
  • You program a structure for your foot, the gun, and the bullet, complete with associated signatures and function definitions. After two hours of laborious typing, forgetting of semicolons, and searching old Comp Sci textbooks for the definition of such phrases as "polymorphic dynamic objective typing system", as well as an additional hour for brushing up on the lambda calculus, you run the program and the interpreter tells you that the pattern-match between your foot and the bullet is nonexhaustive. You feel a slight tingling pain, but no bullethole appears in your foot because your program did not allow for side-effecting statements.
• SNOBOL
  • If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.
  • You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot).
• SQL
  • You cut your foot off, send it out to a service bureau, and when it returns it has a hole in it, but it will no longer fit the attachment at the end of your leg.
• UNIX
  • `% ls
    foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
    % rm * .o
    rm: .o: No such file or directory
    % ls
    %`
• Visual Basic
  • You'll only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it you won't care.
  • You do a Google search on how to shoot yourself in the foot using Visual Basic. You find seventeen completely different ways to do it, none of which are properly structured. You paste the first example into the IDE and compile. It brushes your teeth.
• VMS
  • `%SYS-F-FTSHT, foot shot` (fifty lines of traceback omitted)
• Windows 3.1
  • Double-click the gun icon and wait. Eventually a window opens giving a selection for guns and target areas. Click the "shoot" button and a small box appears with the note "Unable to open shoot.dll, check that path is correct."
• Windows 95
  • Your gun is not compatible with this OS and you must buy an upgrade and install it before you may continue. Then you will be informed that you don't have enough memory.
• Windows ME
  • There will be too many sudden reboots to allow the bullet to get through, so your foot hangs instead.
• Windows XP
  • Some teenage hacker shoots you in the foot with ActiveX. You develop gangrene and die.
• XBase
  • Shooting yourself is no problem, but if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, you'll have to use Clipper.
• Xcode
  • Your Objective-C and Java programs now have nifty little graphical interfaces and will run on both PowerPC and x86-based architectures, but you still can't shoot yourself in the foot unless you're the superuser.
• XML
  • You vaporize your entire lower half with a bazooka.
  • You can't actually shoot yourself in the foot; all you can do is describe the gun in painful detail.
• Z
  • You write out all the specification of your foot, the bullet, the gun, and the relevant laws of physics, but all you can do is prove that you can shoot yourself in the foot.

[RaceProUK]

I tried to fix the formatting, but it's not taking

[dkf]

@raceprouk said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Ruby

• You shoot yourself in the foot and then have to justify it to all your friends who are still naively using Perl.

Also, Ruby takes a terabyte of memory to actually make even a popgun to shoot yourself in the foot with, but at least the popgun is decorated by all sorts of cute animated pictures of rabbits, ponies and Great Cthulhu.

[Gurth]

@raceprouk Also, the link to the page you got it from doesn’t work because it includes the colon at the end.

[RaceProUK]

@gurth said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@raceprouk Also, the link to the page you got it from doesn’t work because it includes the colon at the end.

hits with a

[MZH]

I've posted this elsewhere, but since this is the OFFICIAL thread:

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.

1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.

1936 - Alan Turing invents every programming language that will ever be but is shanghaied by British Intelligence to be 007 before he can patent them.

1936 - Alonzo Church also invents every language that will ever be but does it better. His lambda calculus is ignored because it is insufficiently C-like. This criticism occurs in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1940s - Various "computers" are "programmed" using direct wiring and switches. Engineers do this in order to avoid the tabs vs spaces debate.

1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2].

1959 - After losing a bet with L. Ron Hubbard, Grace Hopper and several other sadists invent the Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language (COBOL) . Years later, in a misguided and sexist retaliation against Adm. Hopper's COBOL work, Ruby conferences frequently feature misogynistic material.

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

1970 - Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman create Scheme. Their work leads to a series of "Lambda the Ultimate" papers culminating in "Lambda the Ultimate Kitchen Utensil." This paper becomes the basis for a long running, but ultimately unsuccessful run of late night infomercials. Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.

1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

1972 - Alain Colmerauer designs the logic language Prolog. His goal is to create a language with the intelligence of a two year old. He proves he has reached his goal by showing a Prolog session that says "No." to every query.

1973 - Robin Milner creates ML, a language based on the M&M type theory. ML begets SML which has a formally specified semantics. When asked for a formal semantics of the formal semantics Milner's head explodes. Other well known languages in the ML family include OCaml, F#, and Visual Basic.

1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles."

1983 - In honor of Ada Lovelace's ability to create programs that never ran, Jean Ichbiah and the US Department of Defense create the Ada programming language. In spite of the lack of evidence that any significant Ada program is ever completed historians believe Ada to be a successful public works project that keeps several thousand roving defense contractors out of gangs.

1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer. Skynet's motives for performing the service remain unclear but spokespeople from the future say "there is nothing to be concerned about, baby," in an Austrian accented monotones. There is some speculation that Skynet is nothing more than a pretentious buffer overrun.

1986 - Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic.

1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.

1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." Poland becomes nervous.

1995 - At a neighborhood Italian restaurant Rasmus Lerdorf realizes that his plate of spaghetti is an excellent model for understanding the World Wide Web and that web applications should mimic their medium. On the back of his napkin he designs Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta (PHP). PHP documentation remains on that napkin to this day.

1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto inventing a language called Ruby never happened and better be removed in the next revision of this article - DHH].

1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java's novelty.

2001 - Anders Hejlsberg invents C#. C# is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds C#'s novelty.

2003 - A drunken Martin Odersky sees a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad featuring somebody's peanut butter getting on somebody else's chocolate and has an idea. He creates Scala, a language that unifies constructs from both object oriented and functional languages. This pisses off both groups and each promptly declares jihad.

Footnotes

[1] Fortunately for computer science the supply of curly braces and angle brackets remains high.
[2] Catch as catch can - Verity Stob

[coldandtired]

While I have very little love for Apple, I would still assume that they'd found an image of a swift for their logo.

[dcon]

@coldandtired I saw that image and thought: "Your code will be like this bird - crashing into the ground"

[Gąska]

@coldandtired said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

While I have very little love for Apple, I would still assume that they'd found an image of a swift for their logo.

[darkmatter]

Java
You write a program to shoot yourself in the foot and put it on the Internet. People all over the world shoot themselves in the foot, and everyone leaves your website hobbling and cursing.
You amputate your foot at the ankle with a fourteen-pound hacksaw, but you can do it on any platform.

JavaScript
You find that Microsoft and Sun have released incompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of Foot objects implemented in the past in many other languages, you cannot get access to one. But, seeing as JavaScript is so cool, you don't care and go around shooting anything else you can find.

eh? the hell is he talking about, did he get javascript mixed up with java or did that happen from the copy+paste and reformatting here?

and for such a long list, nothing about RPG :(

[Gurth]

@darkmatter said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

and for such a long list, nothing about RPG :(

That’s because each has totally different rules from all the others, and they change with every new edition published.

[darkmatter]

@gurth said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

they change with every new edition published.

true, though RPG IV has been the last edition for almost 25 years now

[wharrgarbl]

https://imgur.com/CfSwf

http://imgur.com/WnpMFjX

[dkf]

[Magus]

@dkf People like that know a lot of languages, yet still make that dig about C#...

[anonymous234]

@gąska The name "Rust" does not exactly convey robustness and precision.

[Karla]

E_COLDFUSION_NOT_FOUND

[asdf]

@karla
Cause it's a disease, not a programming language. Duh.

[Gurth]

@dkf said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Forgot the . after END for Pascal — that’s points lost from your grade there.

Gods, that language annoyed me when, during my chemical engineering course, the CS teacher guy made us write programs in it. On paper. After drawing an NSD.

[theBread]

What no MUMPS?

[masonwheeler]

@thebread The author must have gotten properly vaccinated.

[Gąska]

http://i.imgur.com/oqVSVYu.png

[Arantor]

@gąska thing is, how does that look on your resume afterwards?

[RaceProUK]

@gąska Hmm... Montreal is on my shortlist of places to flee if Brexit turns out to be a disaster... but the PHP is a pretty big turn-off.

[Luhmann]

@raceprouk said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

a pretty big turn-off

I bet the content is a turn-on ...

[RaceProUK]

@luhmann said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@raceprouk said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

a pretty big turn-off

I bet the content is a turn-on ...

Porn is a turn-on? Whodathunkit!

[Luhmann]

@raceprouk said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Porn is a turn-on?

In basic conception yes. Then again a lot of it isn't for everyone ... some of it is only for Lorne

[Gurth]

@luhmann said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

In basic conception yes.

If conception is your goal, maybe porn shouldn’t be?

[Luhmann]

@gurth said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

If conception is your goal

Euh ... pretty sure there is porn for that too

[RaceProUK]

@luhmann There's porn of everything. Heck, there's probably even porn of porn. Meta-porn, if you will.

[Jaloopa]

@raceprouk said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

there's probably even porn of porn. Meta-porn, if you will

Reddit has the "SFW Porn" network, basically subreddits with porn in their name where porn means beautiful picture. /r/Earthporn is the best known.

there's also /r/pornporn, for beautifully shot porn pictures

[Arantor]

@jaloopa don't forget /r/cableporn

[dcon]

@gąska said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Counting down to when Apple issues a cease-and-desist order...

[dcon]

@wharrgarbl said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

https://imgur.com/CfSwf

They were this close.
HTML: This is a teapot.

[MZH]

I don't get the C++ excessive copies jokes. Is it a dig at its default value semantics?

[djls45]

@mzh said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

I don't get the C++ excessive copies jokes. Is it a dig at its default value semantics?

Every assignment is a (shallow) copy operation, unless the assignment operator is overridden for that class.

[LB_]

@mzh the joke was made before move semantics were added.

Actually, value semantics are one of the reasons I like C++ so much more than others.

[bb36e]

@jaloopa said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Reddit has the "SFW Porn" network

they also have one for animals...you can guess what that one is named.

[dkf]

@dcon said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Counting down to when Apple issues a cease-and-desist order...

Trademarks don't work like that. If they did, Apple wouldn't be called Apple…

[dcon]

@dkf said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@dcon said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Counting down to when Apple issues a cease-and-desist order...

Trademarks don't work like that. If they did, Apple wouldn't be called Apple…

Oh right. It was Cisco that sued Apple (over iPhone name)

[Gąska]

@djls45 said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@mzh said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

I don't get the C++ excessive copies jokes. Is it a dig at its default value semantics?

Every assignment is a (shallow) copy operation, unless the assignment operator is overridden for that class.

Actually, it's deep copy by default. Also, the joke is about compilation model - every header definition is duplicated for every source file that includes the header, and within a single source file, every template definition is duplicated once for each specialization. Also, it's a common practice to put template classes' entire implementations in headers, so it's easy to end up with std::string and std::vector compiling thousands of times in a single build.

[djls45]

@gąska said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@djls45 said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@mzh said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

I don't get the C++ excessive copies jokes. Is it a dig at its default value semantics?

Every assignment is a (shallow) copy operation, unless the assignment operator is overridden for that class.

Actually, it's deep copy by default.

It is? My understanding is that copying an instance of a class that contains a pointer to another object would only copy the pointer (aka shallow copy), not create a whole new sub-object, which is what a deep copy would do.

Also, the joke is about compilation model - every header definition is duplicated for every source file that includes the header, and within a single source file, every template definition is duplicated once for each specialization. Also, it's a common practice to put template classes' entire implementations in headers, so it's easy to end up with std::string and std::vector compiling thousands of times in a single build.

Ah, that too.

[dcon]

@gąska said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

Actually, it's deep copy by default.

No, it's shallow. Basically a bit-copy.

struct A
{
	char* p;
	A() : p(nullptr) {}
	~A() {delete [] p;}
};

int main()
{
	A a, b;
	a.p = new char[10];
	b = a;
	return 0;
}

Boom!

[Gąska]

@dcon it's not C++ doing shallow copy by default - it's C++ doing deep copy by default (generated copy constructor calls the copy constructor of each member) with pointers receiving special treatment.

[CreatedToDislikeThis]

I wish some high-level languages tried copy-on-write value semantics for values types, where 'value types' includes strings, arrays, dicts and anything else that's logically a value type.
E.g:

type MyClass {
  myCoolListDoNotStreal: List<Coolness>;

  constructor(lst: List<Coolness>) {
    this.myCoolListDoNotStreal = lst; // copy-on-write
  }
  
  letThemHaveCoolness(request: CoolnessRequest) {
    if (request.allowed) {
      return this.myCoolListDoNotSteal; // copy-on-write
    } else {
      return fatalErrorAlertMurder();
    }
  }
}

function knave(myClass: MyClass) {
  var lst = myClass.letThemHaveCoolness(); // copy-on-write value semantics, creates an independent value but with no copying cost
  if (window.myLocal) { // rare condition
    lst.push(UNCOOL); // doesn't affect myClass, only lst. (But does incur copy cost on first modification)
  } else {
    // enumerate and have fun with lst here, still with no copying cost.
  }
} // lst goes out of scope and thus future modifications to myClass's member variable incur no copying cost either.

func coolnessProcessor(lst: &List<Coolness>) { // Reference semantics can also be explicitly requested
                                  // (and so MyClass can make use of coolnessProcessor to process its member variable.)
  lst.push(TOO_COOL); // no copying cost due to reference semantics
}

// Oh and the above applies only for value types (which can include user-defined value types).
// The rest of the types are "identity" (aka object/reference) types (like MyClass above),
//   which are passed by reference as in java/what-have-you. 
//   (Possibly with some way to easily distinguish the two kind of types at a glance)

Now, I realize the implementation of this would have to incur some unfavorable costs and complexities, but the result will just make more sense than the current "everything is a reference".
For example, if one were to write the above MyClass in javascript/java/etc, he'd have to copy the list in both constructor and getter in order to avoid users of the class accidentally modifying it.
Of course, some languages like C# and java provide other solutions like read only maps, but I feel these are just workarounds to the pitfalls of reference semantics.

It's worth a try, 'sall I'm saying.

[djls45]

@gąska said in The Official Making Fun Of Programming Languages Thread:

@dcon it's not C++ doing shallow copy by default - it's C++ doing deep copy by default (generated copy constructor calls the copy constructor of each member) with pointers receiving special treatment.

Ah, that's right. I had forgotten.
Pointers (and thus also C-style arrays) are considered a basic type, along with all the other ones -- e.g. int, char, short, long, float, double -- for which it does a bit-wise copy.
"Complex" types (anything with a class or struct definition) use the copy constructor of their member "complex" objects.

[Gąska]

@createdtodislikethis Rust has Cow<T> type that can wrap nearly any type to give it COW semantics.

[Benjamin Hall]

@gąska is there a Bull<T> type? So Bull<Cow<T>> would be Calf<T>?

PS. "calf" is a weird looking word for some reason.