Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

Stereotypes

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-23 14:16 ID:p+x7JQjk

Python fag: uses Python because he can't comprehend a language that is actually useful. Listens J-Pop and anime music.
C programmer: Older programmer that thinks there could never be anything better than C, even though C's standard library is woefully inadequate. Listens to classic heavy metal (Megadeth, Anthrax, Iron Maiden)
C++ programmer: Learned it in college and hasn't yet needed to change to anything else. Listens to classic rock (Rush, Jethro Tull)
Haskell fag: "I'm not gonna use those shitty mainstream languages, man! Those fucking sell-outs." Listens to shitty indie music and complains that no one understands them.
Java fag: Learned Java in college, can't learn anything more useful. Listens to ClearChannel radio.

Am I missing anything?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-15 12:32

I know (or am learning) all those languages except Java (but I know C#) and none of the descriptions match me.

Starting at age 14, I learned C++, then C, then Python, then C# and am currently learning Haskell. At various points I also learned PHP, Perl, bash script and x86 assembly (although not very well). Don't get the wrong impression, though; I'm by no means a good programmer (mediocre, I'd say). I'm also learning Scheme while reading SICP. I'm pretty impressed by how simple the syntax is.

I'm most like the C programmer because I listen to classic heavy metal (don't like Anthrax or Iron Maiden but I love Megadeth) though I also love death metal. I don't think there could never be anything better than C, though, and I agree that its standard library is too small (though I would say that it's probably by design rather than by accident). The main thing that irritates me about it is the fact that everything is in the global scope. C++ alleviates that problem very slightly by placing the standard library in the std namespace (though for some reason some people like to put everything back into the global scope with using namespace std;).

Newer Posts
Don't change these.
Name: Email:
Entire Thread Thread List