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beliavsky
From the web site:
"Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#? These people have thought up
programming languages Fortran, Prologue, Ada."
The author is ignorant. Fortran was invented by IBM in the late 1950s,
long before Microsoft existed. Ada was commissioned by the U.S.
Department of Defense in the 1970s. The Prolog programming language is
not spelled "Prologue".
"Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#? These people have thought up
programming languages Fortran, Prologue, Ada."
The author is ignorant. Fortran was invented by IBM in the late 1950s,
long before Microsoft existed. Ada was commissioned by the U.S.
Department of Defense in the 1970s. The Prolog programming language is
not spelled "Prologue".
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Jan Dries
I don't think that "these people" is refering to Microsoft. Instead, it
is refering to the three pictures below the text. I assume they are the
pictures of the respective authors of these languages.
The bottom line of the article is that languages authored by men with
beards are more successful than those authored by people without beards.
At least the anecdotical evidence to that is overwhelming
And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
beard
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/-big/IMG_3061.jpg
Regards,
Jan
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Max M
Jan said:(e-mail address removed) wrote:
And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
beard
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/-big/IMG_3061.jpg
LOL, he is working on linux, isn't he?
So it was about bloody time.
--
hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark
http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science
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Michael Sparks
Pierre said:
I almost didn't look at this, but I'm glad I did - quite a fun comparison,
nicely arbitrary and reminds me of RFC in a similar vein
Michael.
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Rick Parsons
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:18:15 +0100, Jan Dries wrote:
What about languages USED by men with beards? There may be hope for me
yet.
Regards,
Rick
The bottom line of the article is that languages authored by men with
beards are more successful than those authored by people without beards.
At least the anecdotical evidence to that is overwhelming
And there is hope for Python, as Guido has recently been seen with a
beard
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/-big/IMG_3061.jpg
Regards,
Jan
What about languages USED by men with beards? There may be hope for me
yet.
Regards,
Rick
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Jon Perez
Max said:
Guido Van Rossum is now working on linux??
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Bengt Richter
Are they both left-handed? Hm, sinister ...
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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Terry Reedy
Here is the link giving the context for that picture
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/DynamicJava
The other person is Larry Wall. Samuele Pedroni is in the next one.
A rather interesting meeting.
Terry J. Reedy
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/12/08/DynamicJava
The other person is Larry Wall. Samuele Pedroni is in the next one.
A rather interesting meeting.
Terry J. Reedy
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Jon Perez
Anyone know of a cached copy where the photos are present?
The whole thing makes little sense with the photos gone.
The whole thing makes little sense with the photos gone.
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Terry Reedy
Jon Perez said:
It would hardly make more sense with the photos.
"Not the law is clear? There is a beard - there is a success.
There is no beard - you are guilty. "
Terry J. Reedy
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Jon Perez
Terry said:
The photos would be graphic evidence and would make
it more entertaining to read through.
And what about the moustache issue and Grace
Hopper (COBOL is/was a very popular language but
very much maligned and criticized like Perl and
BASIC whose creators had moustaches instead of
beards) ?
Also, what about C#? AFAIK, Heljsberg has neither
beard nor moustache, or is he sprouting one now (no
pic to confirm...)?