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If Programming Languages Could Speak

Posted by michael on from the if-C++-screams-in-the-forest,-does-it-make-a-sound dept.

HealYourChurchWebSit writes "BurningBird's "The Parable of the Languages" offers a delightfully playful answer to the the question, "[what] if programming languages could speak, really speak, not just crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both wise and profound.""

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  1. What they forgot to mention... by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...is that all of Visual Studio was outside the gates and not allowed to join the party because the stupid punks weren't compatible and didn't get along well with their counterparts.

    (No, this isn't just blatant anti-M$ hatred, but rather the ranting of a student who is mad that his class is using Visual C++ and wants to just be able to use gcc and not deal with Windows)

  2. Nothing worth listening to by sploreg · · Score: 0, Troll

    They would say what we want them to say. They are finite state machines programmed by us, to work how we want them to work and have a knowledge base consisting of what we have "taught" them.
    Would you really care as to what they have to say if we have heard it all before? They don't have feelings or emotions towards anything. Whatever they tell us is just regurgitated knowledge from a database. Therefore we know what a computer would say if it could speak: "Here is a finite answer to your bounded question."
    Until we fully understand how our brain works, particularly the part(s) relating to imagination, and we can transfer that knowledge into machine code, then maybe computers would give us something worth listening to. Until then, I don't want to hear how it is doing today, just load up UT thanks.

  3. How to kill karma on /. by km790816 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hey, can you post a link to that story about the buffer overflow in .NET?

    What is that? You DON'T know of one? You're post couldn't have been un-educated MS flame.

    Wow. I'm so suprised. :-)

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    A speech...
  4. I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If my thick, hard, veiny, purple cock could speak, what would say?

    Probably "RUB ME"