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[unixronin]

Which Programming Language are You?

"This program wouldn't VOOM if you put five thousand volts through it!"

I really should get around to learning Python some day.

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[greyman.livejournal.com]

I'm COBOL, dammit.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

But think how many banks rely on you! :)

[smandal.livejournal.com]

I got visual basic. Please excuse me while I go kill myself.

Python is awesome. If you are already an experienced programmer, you can learn it in 10 minutes, and confidently start a multi-thousand line project in a day or two.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

An experienced programmer, or an experienced object-oriented programmer?

[smandal.livejournal.com]

1 day if you are experienced with OOP. 2 days if you aren't. :P

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I got, Lots of Irritating Single Parens (LISP), What a PITA! It is one of the few languages that just do not make sense to me. It is like Pascal, I can read it alright, I just can not produce working code in it.

You should feel very fortunate, once you get past the OOP thing, python is really quite nice.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

(I (used to (know (how to (write LISP) once)))).) I tried applying that knowledge to Scheme, and it didn't seem to apply too well.

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

I got Smalltalk. Is that good or bad?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That probably depends on who you ask. :)

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

I'm a complete naif with computers and programing codes.
What does it do?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well ... there are many people who will tell you that Smalltalk is the best and purest of all object-oriented programming languages. There are some who would probably go so far as to say that it's the ONLY true object-oriented programming language, though I wouldn't go that far myself. (By comparison, C++ and Objective-C (for example) are just C with object extensions bolted on, and while Perl has object-oriented features and supports object-oriented programming, it's very inconsistent about how it does it. Python and Java are both valid and useful object-oriented languages though.)

On the other hand, Smalltalk was never a big commercial success, and there's very little these days it's actually used for.

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

I got C. Cool!