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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. 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?
  2. 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.

  3. 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.
  4. 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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    "Si vis pacem para bellum" -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
  5. Fortran isn't successful? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whatever he's smoking, he needs to share.

  6. 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
  7. 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."

  8. 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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    I drank what? -- Socrates
  9. 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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