/prog/ - Quote Help?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 13:04

No one would happen to know who wrote a quote sounding like this, would they?

"when c programmers look down all they see is ASM, but when they look up they see Java and VB, they are as the Chinese say a toad at the bottom of a well"

I was reading his essays a while back and now I can't find the site.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 13:34

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 13:45

>>2
Thank you, I was getting bored there.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 13:47

>>2
It's funny because Graham himself is a Blub programmer.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 13:53

Lisp is for huge elitist faggots.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 14:29

>>4
what because he doesn't use CLOS?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 14:40

>>6
Because of the defmacro.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 15:37

>>7
huh?

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 15:44

>>8
The usual hygiene problem.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 16:03

>>9
Lispers don't care about hygiene.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 16:06

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Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 16:07

>>1
VB

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 16:20

>>9
hygiene is a clearly a nerf, not a buff. Hygiene doesn't open possibilities, it closes them. And the workarounds for it are incredibly stupid.

Name: Anonymous 2011-07-25 17:04

>>13
It doesn't work like that.

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