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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. What about operating systems? by Megane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure everyone's heard of the "Unix beard"?

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    1. Re:What about operating systems? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wonder if that means that my evil, bearded twin in the Mirror Mirror universe is a better programmer than I am...

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    2. Re:What about operating systems? by DaedalusHKX · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmmm... I got clean shaven and got out of IT... grew a beard for awhile more and got out of sales... I dislike both, but it is a bit interesting... very interesting.

      Judging by that, dwarves make the best programmers.

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  2. Bears?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Letâ(TM)s see whatâ(TM)s going on with C? Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson. They are fine. Still have very good bears, so C has long long life. I understand the link you are trying to make with beards but you just throw this bear data in there taking the reader by surprise. Needless to say, I wish to learn more about this correlation of "good" bears and programming language success. Are these some kind of enforcer bears you speak of? If so, how are they "good?" Should we be afraid of Microsoft patenting our bear technology?
  3. Some more examples by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are examples of what is known as the progammer's dress code:

    first
    second

    I think Woz has the essence of it.

  4. Somebody, quick! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the LOVE OF GOD, would someone PLEASE go grab James Gosling and SHAVE HIS BEARD!!!!

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  5. So that means . . . by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks]

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    1. Re:So that means . . . by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks] Only women would know how to use it.
  6. 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
    1. Re:Ahh, but he did! by value_added · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Speaking of being beardless and goofy looking, there was scene in one of the Planet of the Apes movies (don't ask why I remember) where one of the chimps (the older female) watched while Charlton Heston, using something resembling a broken clam shell, shaved off his beard.

      "Why are you scraping the hair from your face?", she asked. "It makes you seem ... somehow ... less intelligent."

  7. Oh the memories by oldwindways · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This reminds me of one of my third grade teachers. His class motto was "people with beards are great".

    I can't help but think that he was on to something.

    Actually, it also brings to mind a theme from Cryptonomicon, where programmers are referred to as Dwarves, "stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things." I don't think its a coincidence that beards go along with the territory.

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  8. Computer languages have facial hair? by PortHaven · · Score: 2, Funny

    "facial hair and the success of computer languages"

    I presume the article that is not loading is about the corresponding relationship of programmer's facial hair and the language they work in - versus computer languages themselves actually having facial hair.

    C++ (that must be nasty hair growing out of an ear. I had a Chemistry professor with that problem in college)

  9. Fortran isn't successful? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whatever he's smoking, he needs to share.

    1. Re:Fortran isn't successful? by Luyseyal · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hell, my brother's master's thesis (engineering) involves modeling the lungs and he ended up doing it in Fortran because the math libraries he needed to use were written in Fortran and he didn't want to bother with wrapper code. So there ya go. 2008 and Fortran is still being written.

      -l

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  10. Me = Beard, Boss = No Beard by PaulMorel · · Score: 2, Funny

    My boss is constantly creating bugs in our software. He has no beard. QED.

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    1. Re:Me = Beard, Boss = No Beard by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      My boss is constantly creating bugs in our software. He has no beard. QED. You are so fired!

      Your Boss
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  11. google-analytics.com by mr_mischief · · Score: 3, Funny
    OK, the story is funny. The most interesting things about it, though, are these:

    1. there are stats on it collected by urchin (google-analytics.com/urchin.js)
    2. A Microsoft site was slashdotted
    1. Re:google-analytics.com by CaptainPatent · · Score: 2, Funny

      OK, the story is funny. The most interesting things about it, though, are these...

      A Microsoft site was slashdotted Obviously Microsoft needs more beards!
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  12. Whence RMS? by dynamo · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  13. Why? by wootcat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course! You need something to stroke as you sit back and ponder your next line of code.

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

    Here is the coral cache link.

  15. Re:Hmm by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Funny

    Visigoths wore beards. I bet they coulda' taken Bath. If they coulda' got cross teh channel.

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  16. 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.

  17. Here's a nickel, kid. by turing_m · · Score: 2, Funny

    Get yourself a better computer.

    http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg

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  18. The missing data point is Niklaus WIrth by kraut · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Niklaus_Wirth%2C_UrGU.jpg

    Full beard, no real success for Pascal. Or Modula-2, or Oberon.

    The exception that proves the rule.

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    1. 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."