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Facial Hair and Computer Languages

Posted by kdawson on from the brother-is-an-hairy-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tamir Khason from Israel has blogged about the direct connection between the amount of facial hair and the success of computer languages. Very funny, and it's the truth."

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  1. Ahh, but he did! by theGreater · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the LOVE OF GOD, would someone PLEASE go grab James Gosling and SHAVE HIS BEARD!!!! http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/beardless_conspiracies
  2. Whence RMS? by dynamo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any discussion of facial hair and geekery is empty without mention of RMS.

  3. Coral Cache link by middlemen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is the coral cache link.

  4. Ada by SleptThroughClass · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ada Lovelace had little facial hair. Although her software is not popular, the difference engine has a certain theoretical popularity.

  5. Re:The missing data point is Niklaus WIrth by treerex · · Score: 2, Informative

    Turbo Pascal dominated the PC programming space in the 80s. And the Apple LISA and original Macintosh were programmed in two languages: assembly or Pascal. Hell, the Mac Toolbox used Pascal calling conventions and you had to deal with "Pascal Strings" (the length of the string being the first byte) for years and years, even in other languages. As another commenter said, "get off my lawn."