/prog/ - If programming languages were languages

Name: Anonymous 2008-12-19 7:32

C++ would be English. It's hideously complicated and has stolen ideas from a ton of other languages but didn't get any of them right. Even though everyone claims to know it, few people actually know most of the details. There are people who barely know enough of the language to put something together that mostly works -- but that apparently counts as "knowing" it.

Haskell would be Lojban. It makes perfect sense if you've taken the time to learn it, but it looks so damn weird at first that few people bother, and the ones who do usually go around feeling superior and telling everyone else how marvelous it is. Also, it's insistent on staying "pure" to a fault.

Assembly would of course be Latin. It was perfectly suitable at the time it was created, but practically no one speaks it anymore except for a couple of words and phrases.

HTML would be grunting and pointing. It's ok for communicating ideas, but despite what lower-level primates seem to think, it isn't a real language.

XSLT would be sign language. It *is* a real language, but a really annoying one to use. However, about 0.1% of the time it happens to be the right tool for the job.

Lisp would be German. Combining words together to make new words? Same general idea as "cdaddr".

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-30 16:37

>>119
Perl

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-30 17:01

Which language would Perl be?

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-19 18:51

>>122
Sanskrit

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-20 3:19

[b]Congratularation! we're on ^L[sub]t[/sup]^U![/b]

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-20 3:57

>>124
Valid perl code.

Name: Anonymous 2010-04-20 8:50

>>124
That better not be true.

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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 0:32

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-20 23:55

would C be latin?

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 11:40

>>9
Oddly enough the loop-recur thing is great. The clojure people have actually said that even if the JVM gets TCO, they're keeping it because it makes code easier to understand. The only disadvantage right now is that mutual tail recursion can't be optimized. (And if it's only two functions, they have a trampoline feature built into the language.)

lisp haters, check out clojure, you can use every java library ever in your code without any translation, it's pretty tight

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 11:42

C would be Latin I think. In that it's influenced so many languages and you can see its marks everywhere.
Lisp would be Chinese, just as influential, but strange and alien to our Western minds. (Having learned a small amount of both, I think this is a reasonable analogy.)

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 14:45

would C be Lain?

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 15:06

APL would undechperiable ancient hiroglyphics

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 15:33

APL would be Chinese: Ideograms.
Common Lisp would be Japanese: The grammar is ridiculously simple but the vocabulary is quite complex.
C would be Latin: It's relatively consistent and has influenced many other languages.
C++ would be French: It's influenced by Latin and kept all its quirks while stacking nonsense onto it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 15:51

>>135
Sounds like you don't know Latin or French.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 15:53

>>136
I don't know much about Latin but French is my mother tongue.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 16:11

>>136
Actually >>135 is smarter than you think. The French language maintained strong similarities with Latin, at least in writing. For example, word temps, meaning time, resembles its Latin counterpart tempus.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 16:17

WTF!?!?

How come shit thread like this is still alive.

fucking faggots

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 19:04

>>1
XSLT
the right tool for anything

hahahaha

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-21 19:05

ooc would be the language of the gods themselves.

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-26 2:31

BUMP

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-29 8:02

BAMPU PANTSU

N ecpin O'Xetos

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-29 11:27

Name: Anonymous 2011-08-29 11:57

Perl would be Latin

can say everything relatively quickly

everyone wants to learn it to feel smart, though not really useful aside from learning pronouns(scope)

C++ would be Italian

C would be Spain Spanish

Java would be British English (seriously Colour not color? fucking brits)

Ada would be American english, made by americans for americans

Python would be french

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