Paul Graham On 'Great Hackers' 620
dcgrigsby writes "Always interesting, if not unbiased, Paul Graham has published a new article on 'Great Hackers', discussing why Perl and Python are apparently better than Java, on why Microsoft developers get offices, and a host of other sure-to-be-controversial stuff."
Canadian Mullets (Score:2, Funny)
I remember standing behind him [Trevor Blackwell] making frantic gestures at Robert to shoo this nut out of his office so we could go to lunch. Robert says he misjudged Trevor at first too. Apparently when Robert first met him, Trevor had just begun a new scheme that involved writing down everything about every aspect of his life on a stack of index cards, which he carried with him everywhere. He'd also just arrived from Canada, and had a strong Canadian accent and a mullet.
Thereby *really* standing out as an nutjob oddball.
When he starts comparing languages... (Score:5, Funny)
"No they don't", you cry, "the best hackers user Assembly and Visual Basic".
"No, you're a fucking moron", someone else pipes up, "the best hackers use Pascal and COBOL."
"No, you are a fuckwit," a voice from the back of the croud screams, "Fortran and Algol are the languages of the best hackers".
"Quiet you fools," an elderly guru from the wings yells out, "I happen to know that the best hackers use Perl when they aren't dictating their programs to their secretaries to be outsourced to Taiwan to be compiled into Haskell"
"Shows what you know old man", a kid in the front row sneers, "the l33t hax0rs use Lisp and C++".
Well anyway, it looks like this might go on for a while, please enjoy the other comments while we try and work this out...
Re:Great hackers use Perl and Python? (Score:4, Funny)
I put forward to you... vmlinux.NET
Re:When he starts comparing languages... (Score:3, Funny)
True languages of hackers? (Score:1, Funny)
Incendiarially (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Article text (in case of slashdotting) (Score:3, Funny)
THAT'S META KARMA-WHORING; OMG!
Re:Java (Score:3, Funny)
I may be like the last guy to get on the boat, but I just realized through your parenthetical remark that "C#" is a lot like "C++" squished together: the "#", when separated, is two plus signs.
I had some cool ASCII art showing what I meant but the fucking lameness filter wouldn't let it through, even with a ton of extra text around the art. So, just imagine that the top line and left line form the first "+", and the bottom line and right line form the second "+", and then pull them apart, the first to the top and left and the second to the bottom and right, and you'll have seen what I saw when I read your comment.
Not that it helps me understand the language any, but I thought it was a neat "pun".
Re:Java (Score:2, Funny)
the ascendance of Java (and C#, which is Java + 1)
A great hacker would have said Java++ .. ;)
It's too bad... (Score:4, Funny)
Ba dum bum!
Re:Tool for the job. (Score:3, Funny)
I fear for your life the first time someone wants one little change.
Re:Java (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Great hackers use Perl and Python? (Score:1, Funny)
Scariest... idea... EVER...
Aaaaaannnnd now, introducing for the first time ever - the One Line Kernel!!!*
*Line contains 6 billion characters, none of which are spaces, and is coded in logic sufficiently dense that gzip is unable to compress it. Any human being able to understand it should be removed to a padded room immediately.
Re:Java (Score:3, Funny)
I'm doomed! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Java Vs. perl (Score:1, Funny)
a. sysadmin
b. java developer
c. janitor
Personally, I'm voting for (a).
[...]
I'm a sysadmin
Well, surprise, surprise!
Re:Astrology for Geeks (Score:3, Funny)