[wplug] programming languages [was cores, but someone had a beef with Python and would rather take segfaults...]

Zach netrek at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 19:50:07 EST 2008


are the slides and text at least available?

zach

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net> wrote:
> Brainfuck is child's play.  Real programmers use Malbolge.
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
>
>  Of course, there are pleanty of other interesting languages out there.  Guy
>   Steele and Dick Gabriel did a GREAT overview of the a massive number of
>  strange languages in their History of Programming Languages Keynote last
>  year.  55 slides, 55 languages, 55 words per language.  BRILLIANT.
>
>  Personally, I think that Piet is a beautiful language.
>
>  Unfortunately, ACM can't post the video online because they used many a
>  song without getting copyright clearance.
>
>  --Patrick
>
>  Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>  > Seriously....what about Whitespace?  Or Brain Fuck?  Or Shakespeares'
>  > Programming Language?
>  >
>  > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan S. Billings <wbanguna at gmail.com
>  > <mailto:wbanguna at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  >     On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:23:14AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>  >      > Python is the worst, most useless programming language I have
>  >      > seen and I DARE ANYONE to argue with me.  :P
>  >
>  >     I think you just haven't seen enough programming languages, if you
>  >     think Python is the most useless.
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