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Total Members Voted: 8

[adamruth]

But I heard smalltalk is okay, but I'm sorta skeptical since I read an example hello world version of a smalltalk program and was I like. "WTF?!?!" I can read LISP better than smalltalk.

It's all a matter of what you're used to.  If you had only ever done Smalltalk, reading C would be also be WTF.  Lisp's parentheses really throw off a lot of programmers.  I've worked with Smalltalk quite a bit and I find it to be very readable.  Not as readable as Python or Ada, but readable none the less.

Of course, this doesn't apply to Perl, no one can read Perl.

[ladyattis]

Yes, that's true. Perl is just read by accident, not by intention.

-- Bridget

[adamruth]

Yes, that's true. Perl is just read by accident, not by intention.

-- Bridget

"Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption"

      -- Keith Bostic

[adamruth]

Some more fun quotes:

http://www.sysprog.net/quotjava.html

[ladyattis]

Some more fun quotes:

http://www.sysprog.net/quotjava.html

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. (Robert Sewell)

[AlexLibman]

All this OO talk and no one mentioned RubyLanguage yet...

[rabidfurby]

Python vs. Perl

Python. No contest.

Opening brace on new line vs. Opening brace on same line

I haven't decided on this one yet, because I haven't done much programming in bracy languages. I used to like the same line, but in my most recent assignment for my C++ class I've switched to new line, and I think I may like it more.

Tabs vs. Spaces

Anything but a tab makes the baby Science cry.

Mountain Dew vs. Jolt

SUUUUURGE!!!!!!!

[ladyattis]

Dew vs Jolt... Jolt definitely.

-- Bridget

[bonerjoe]

But Jolt tastes like shit.

[AlexLibman]

But Jolt tastes like shit.

Human taste can be fooled very easily.  Use your mind.  If you don't understand everything about what you're drinking, just drink some pure H2O instead.

(Or beer.  Me drink like 20 beers tonight.  Beer make me self-aware and happy...)

[money dollars]

But Jolt tastes like shit.

I've never tasted jolt or shit.

[money dollars]

Opening brace on new line vs. Opening brace on same line

I haven't decided on this one yet, because I haven't done much programming in bracy languages. I used to like the same line, but in my most recent assignment for my C++ class I've switched to new line, and I think I may like it more.

I do both in the same code.  If it works I don't give a crap.

[cerpntaxt]

emacs: eight megabytes and constantly swapping 

[ladyattis]

Opening brace on new line vs. Opening brace on same line

I haven't decided on this one yet, because I haven't done much programming in bracy languages. I used to like the same line, but in my most recent assignment for my C++ class I've switched to new line, and I think I may like it more.

I do both in the same code.  If it works I don't give a crap.

I agree there.

-- Bridget

[AlexLibman]

Dat's it, I'm writing a family of unstopable platform-specific virii that will search all the world's networked storage devices for code and indent it to my liking!  Make your peace!  All your brace are belong to us!

Seriously, though, I think version control systems and IDE's will evolve to preemptively reformat code based on each programmer's preferences.  But we all know the whole world will switch to Python before that...