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6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use

Posted by timothy on from the esperanto-and-atlantean-are-compact-and-efficient dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Several weeks ago, Lynn Greiner's article on the state of the scripting universe was slashdotted. Several people raised their eyebrows at the (to them) obvious omissions, since the article only covered PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and JavaScript. As I wrote at the time, Lynn chose those languages because hers was a follow-up to an article from three years back. However, it was a fair point. While CIO has covered several in depth, those five dynamic languages are not the only ones developers use. In 6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use, CIO looks at several (including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo) which deserve more attention for business software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Each language gets a formal definition and then a quote or two from a developer who explains why it inspires passion."

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  1. Vulgar language. by Trespass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, you meant programming. Well, fuck it. =P

  2. Let me see... by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Klingon, Swedish Chef, Elvish (can't pronounce Dwarvish), Pirate, Porn Star Dialogue, and Latin.

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    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
    1. Re:Let me see... by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "There's dialog in Pron?"

      If you count the grunting and moaning - THAT would perk up a Powerpoint presentation.

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      "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
    2. Re:Let me see... by PinkPanther · · Score: 3, Funny

      You remember the brand of hairspray? Man, now THAT's advertising you simply couldn't buy!

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      It's a simple matter of complex programming.
  3. The Tags say it all. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    donotwant developers programming

    Sounds like the corporate policies I've gotten used to.

  4. Re:Language Independent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How quickly will a good programmer learn Malbolge?

  5. Re:Language Independent! by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Malbolge - named for the eighth circle of hell". Interesting. So the Nth circle of hell is named Perl?

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  6. LOLCODE by Shikaku · · Score: 5, Funny

    HAI
    CAN HAS STDIO?
    I HAS A VAR
    IM IN YR LOOP
          UP VAR!!1
          IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHX
          VISIBLE VAR
    IM OUTTA YR LOOP
    KTHXBYE //outputs 1-10

    1. Re:LOLCODE by paulthomas · · Score: 4, Funny

      OMG WAU!!! U CAN HAS javascript implementashun!!

      JAVASCRIPT VERZHUN moer liek:

      HAI
      CAN HAS STDIO?
      I HAS A VAR IZ 0
      IM IN YR LOOP
                  UPZ VAR!!1
                  IZ VAR BIGR THAN 10?
                                  GTFO.
                    KTHX
                  VISIBLE VAR
      KTHX
      KTHXBYE

      Javascript Lolcode Inturpretur.

      KTHXBYE, WTFBBQ!

      *ducks*

  7. Re:Language Independent? by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your programming skills should not be tied to the language you use.

    Quite. I use harsh language and it hasn't interfered with my programing skills whatsoever.
    Stupid git.

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    Made from the freshest electrons.
  8. Re:Language Independent! by zerOnIne · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, that would be the name of the the $_ circle of hell.

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  9. I'd like to use... by owlnation · · Score: 2, Funny

    English, instead of Buzzwordish.

  10. Re:Language Independent! by hpoul · · Score: 2, Funny

    and to get your boss to acknowledge it you might add some other postfix like '.net', or some weird character '#' or just '2.0' ... sometimes even 'enterprise' does the job ..

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  11. F# has terrible reviews by QuestionsNotAnswers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google F# bad

    Although it used to be worse:
    Google F#

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    Happy moony
  12. Re:Language Independent! by Smallpond · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must be true that this takes time. I've been programming in Perl for years and have yet to learn anything about the compiler.

  13. Re:Language Independent! by ari_j · · Score: 3, Funny

    Enterprise Objective Malbolge# 2.0 needs to exist. Who wants to help create it?