I understand that you’re making a joke, but I just wanted to say: A shiv isn’t crude, it’s efficient. Take simple materials and fashion them into a deadly weapon? Sounds like LISP to me.
Does this mostly apply to geeks for whom English is their native language?
I think for us non-native English geeks it’s the other way around: we did well in English classes because we were immersed in the language from a young age.
Oh man, so much this. Just by virtue of being exposed to various tech stuff over the course of my high school I went from total cluelessness to ~C1 level. Yeah, my grammar is sometimes wonky, but I enjoy reading quite much.
<jokingly>I feel offended, LISP would be such a crude device? And Rust, such a fine piece of engineering reduced to a plastic dummy?</jokingly>
I understand that you’re making a joke, but I just wanted to say: A shiv isn’t crude, it’s efficient. Take simple materials and fashion them into a deadly weapon? Sounds like LISP to me.
Just curious, why all the off-topic downvotes? Is humor not appreciated on Lobsters?
I consider it too light in content.
I can’t speak for Lobsters, but I don’t like humour.
Satire, analogy and metaphor is anathema to geeks because it reminds them of their failed english classes.
It hurts because its true.
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*waits*
Does this mostly apply to geeks for whom English is their native language?
I think for us non-native English geeks it’s the other way around: we did well in English classes because we were immersed in the language from a young age.
Oh man, so much this. Just by virtue of being exposed to various tech stuff over the course of my high school I went from total cluelessness to ~C1 level. Yeah, my grammar is sometimes wonky, but I enjoy reading quite much.
C is an M1 Garand with 204 triggers, 203 of which make the rifle fire on you instead of the enemy.
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CC.+Undefined+Behavior
Aw come on, if Perl is a Molotov Cocktail, then PHP is at least a broken wine bottle… works even though its broken.
Can someone explain C# to me?
his point might be that c# is nice but tied to microsoft; remove windows (say try and use the mono framework) and it’s less good.
on the other hand, almost none of his analogies are particularly good, so i don’t see why this one would be an exception.