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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. 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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