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Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance?

bLanark asks: "I've used a variety of programming languanges over the years, but recently started using Java commercially (as opposed to just playing at home). As soon as I was on that Java project, I became a rampant stallion, never left my wife alone, sexually. She even started sleeping in the spare room just to get some rest on some nights! Soon, I was back on C++ (due to a budget cut and re-org). I am no longer a stallion (I won't go into more details!). My theory is that java's so easy, so after conquering an API a day (JDOM, Swing,...) I just came home and carried on conquering. Now, I have to work for a living again, and it doesn't leave much energy. Do other slashdotters have similar experience? Is lisp tantric? Do assembler programmers favour wham-bam-that's-the-end-of-that-non-maskable-inter rupt-where's-the-remote-control-honey-can-you-get- me-a-beer? What's the best programming language for attracting sexual partners? What about Operating Systems? Does MS == S&M?" Does C/C++ dampen your love life? Does Perl please your partner? Can you jive with Java? Inquiring minds want to know.

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  1. Everyone knows that Perl by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perl makes you hung like a camel.

    How many more of these idiotic April 1 jokes do we need to wade through?

    Would it make sense to simply forego /. today?

    1. Re:Everyone knows that Perl by dimator · · Score: 5, Funny

      So what does Python do for you? ;)

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      python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
    2. Re:Everyone knows that Perl by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Funny
      Personally, I think Unix shell programming has perl/python/java/C++ all beat. Just look at the following chain of Unix commands:

      unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep

      (note: I didn't make this up, so don't blame me! I think early UNIX geeks had extremely dirty subconscious thoughts...)

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      main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
    3. Re:Everyone knows that Perl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      When I went to college, there was a girl named Teresa Watt who had an account on the RS/6000. My buddy Rob had tears in his eyes when he showed me that you can actually "finger twatt".

    4. Re:Everyone knows that Perl by WhiteKnight07 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If your looking for a good April fools joke check this one out.

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  2. Perl philosophy: "There's more than one way ..." by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the a Perl glossary:

    TMTOWTDI
    There's More Than One Way To Do It - a major philosophy in the design of Perl. ...

    Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

  3. wait wait wait by Profe55or+Booty · · Score: 4, Funny

    you're asking slashdot readers about their sex life? *chuckles*

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  4. Problems I've had by Etrigan_696 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't have any problems with my sex life being affected by my programming until, while in college, I learned about recursion. Everything went fine until the bed ran out of stack space and it all fell over.
    I figured it was a pointer problem, and it took a while to get it all worked out, but now it's kinda fun.

    Everything went fine till my junior year and I started in on concurrent processing. Now I can't tell if it's a hardware limitation that's keeping me from performing more than 4 operations simultaneously, or if it's a problem with the OS...
    Most likely that problem is in my firmware. Probably something is flashing my firmware and causing me to reboot.

    Maybe during grad school we'll learn about distributed computing....Then I'll need a bigger bed! But I hear it's hard to keep all the process communication under control, because the ports are so busy....

  5. i asked my GF by rosewood · · Score: 4, Funny

    I said to her, sweety - I feel like im less of a man. I do not understand programing. I can not write Perl even. She told me it was okay... she still loved me anyways

  6. Once Again ZZTop Has Wisdom To Share by FrankDrebin · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... she wanna Perl Necklace ...

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    Anybody want a peanut?
  7. Don't know about you... by DennyK · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but spending too much time working in VisualBasic seems to make me BSOD more often. Sometimes I can't even get it to boot up!

    ;-)

    (Sorry, couldn't resist... ;) )

    DennyK

  8. It's all about 64 bit C programming... by curunir · · Score: 5, Funny

    chicks dig long pointers...nuff said

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    "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
  9. Java made me a Virtual Machine by Bo+Vandenberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a little luck I can get loaded and fulfil my commands ANYWHERE! My Girlfriend doesn't like all this objectification, she wants a functional relationship, but I tell her everyone is doing it now.

    She's really just insecure because she knows my last girlfriend was into BSD. I've tried to give her some pointers on her bad memory and tell her thats just not the garbage she should be collecting.

  10. The most important Lesson of the Day by parliboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not about extensibility -- it's about functionality.

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    "You're never ready, just less unprepared."
  11. import javax.sex.*; by sterno · · Score: 5, Funny
    See the thing is that Sun, being the wise company it is has taken java to a new level by adding the JSAPI (Java Sex API). Some of the new packages include:
    • javax.sex.bondage
    • javax.sex.beastiality
    • javax.sex.toys
    • javax.sex.masturbation

    Fortunately the Java sandbox makes the sex API's perfectly safe. It explicitly blocks execution of the getPregnant() method of the Woman class which is a definite plus. It's this sort of well thought out architecture that really puts Java light years ahead of Microsoft's initatives, despite Microsoft's long history of screwing people.
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  12. Sex according to apt by jordancapps · · Score: 5, Funny

    sex is probably updatedb; locate blonde; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove --purge condom; make clean; sleep

  13. Actually, I wrote my thesis on this. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 5, Funny



    Here's the general breakdown for how languages affect sexual performance:

    BASIC - Slow, but good for beginners.
    COBOL - Tends to make you rigid.
    FORTRAN - Almost nobody does it.
    ASSEMBLY - Too short, and too fast for most people.
    JAVA - It will cause your Object to be extended.
    C - Sometimes you just wanna do it for the helluvit.
    C# - Dont worry, it'll clear up in a few weeks.
    Korn Shell - Quick and dirty.
    Perl - Allows you to do it any way you want, anywhere, anytime!

    Cheers,

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    Bowie J. Poag

  14. Technical Matters (Shame on you /. ) by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article is sadly biased against the geek culture. I really hope /. refrains in the future from using culturally loaded terminology which no geek will ever have had the opportunity to become familiar. The amount of jargon I had to wade through was simply horrific.

    I've put together a few links to help fellow geeks make more sense of the article. Call it a jargon file. Feel free to contribute.

    sex

    girl

    wife

    Hope this helps. Try reading the article again now.

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    1. Re:Technical Matters (Shame on you /. ) by Draoi · · Score: 5, Funny
      There's an entry for 'sex' in the Jargon File; http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/SEX.html

      SEX /seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] n. 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus.

      And so on ..... :)

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      Alison

      "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

  15. Shell Programming by CaptCanuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    #!/bin/bash
    date ; unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; finger ; uptime ; head ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; nice ; sleep; expect; fork

    #Sexy programming with words like that

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    ---- The geek shall inherit the Earth.
  16. Re:Really lame by kju · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh my god. If you aren't interested in sex, don't try it at home.

    Its the 1st of April, time to laugh. You know how to laugh, do you?

  17. Languages of Love by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Java
    + Sex is the same no matter who the partner is
    - Sex is the same no matter who the partner is

    + Never have to explicitly clean up/no wet spot
    - Automatic cleanup can occur at the most inopertune times

    + Easy to get decent sex without years of practice
    - Have to go outside your "protective layer" if you want to get down and dirty

    + Quick foreplay, slow execution
    - Slow execution, though with underwhelming performance

  18. Re:Penguin Socks by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could have been worse. She could have asked for Penguins with socks on them. ;)

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  19. Oh my, I misread the title by LadyLucky · · Score: 5, Funny
    as

    Ask Slashdot: Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Preference?

    I thought it was going to turn reeeaaal ugly.

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    1. Re:Oh my, I misread the title by Linux_ho · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually, that's why the religious right have been pushing to remove LISP from the CS curriculum of public universities.

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      1;
  20. Easily offended by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when is merely talking about sex sexist? I don't see what specifically would offend you, as a woman, in the article. If you're simply offended by the mere mention of sex in a humerous context, then I suggest you grow up.

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    main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
  21. Doh, your pun's better than mine. by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's better than the cum-pile joke I was about to make...

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    "Derp de derp."
  22. Sheesh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can the marketing department at Sun stoop any lower?

  23. It is *not* the sex that is the problem by Anthy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The boasting about how well he shagged his wife isn't sexist? This kind of talk does offend girls. I mean would you feel uncomfortable if gay males started cracking jokes about how good a shag this guy was, or this guy wasn't at the watercooler at work? What if girls start talking about two hot guys they saw kissing and how sexy this was in front of all of their male coworkers? Or start talking about how this guy they went out with who you know has such a small penis and can't take it. The standard you have to apply is, if you turned the tables around, would you feel uncomfortable? This is basically the whole thing about the remark that if males could get pregnant, abortion would be a constitutional right. Males hardly ever have to bear the brunt of such behaviour and so have no idea about what is offensive and what is not offensive. I find it significant that all the people writing back saying it is "nothing" are all guys who have most likely *never* had to endure such remarks about their gender before. It is *not* the sex I find offensive but rather the crass immature toilet humour way it is presented and the remarks about being a "stallion" and fucking his wife senseless (yes, I am aware it is a joke). However I agree that one cannot be too fussy. So whilst such talk is not appropriate say around a water cooler at work, it may be say at a pub having a drink with the boys. Which is what I am saying here. The frontpage of the most widely read computer news site is not the appropriate place to put such "humour". The fact that the editors and most of the (male) audience seem to think so is a sign of how deeply entrenced the problems are in the IT industry. I mean take for example, as soon as I complain, the boys here all assume it is the sex when I am not complaining about the fact that it is about sex but the appropriateness of this type of toilet humour in this forum. "Oh, she is a typical female bitch, who can't stand the talk of sex." That in itself is also sexist behaviour. I wonder what type of remark they make if a girl gets sexually harassed at work?

  24. Re:Girls by darkov · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I think of girls as 3 port routers*. And I like to use the full bandwidth on all ports.

    * You have to be Australian to fully get this pun.

  25. Re:Girls by darkov · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're correct. The reason Australians say "rowter" is that it's not really possible to pronounce it "rooter" in polite company. They may as well have called it a "fucker". So we call it as the Armericans do. Of course, the pun still works, it's just a little more hidden.

  26. Re:Really lame by Fiver-rah · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I would put more weight in the fact that I'm the only one complaining, if all the people who are saying I shouldn't be complaining weren't guys.

    Bing! Your wish is granted. I'm a girl. There's nothing wrong with sex. There's nothing wrong with talking about sex. There's nothing engendered about the activity either. Sex is something that should be fun for both men and women. It seems to me that the more sexist attitude is that women don't/shouldn't discuss sex.

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  27. Re:Perl philosophy: "There's more than one way ... by alanh · · Score: 4, Funny
    In my experience, it's more accurately written as:


    TMTOWTDIW

    There's more than one way to do it wrong.
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    - AlanH