On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:39 PM, AON LAZIO <aonla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have thought funny things > If we think all languages are like a family > I could draft them like this (Python base) > > C is Python's Mom > I can see this. > C++ : Dad > Ick, no. C++ is the dirty Uncle who gets touchy with us in inappropriate ways. > Pascal/Assembly : Grandparents > o.O > C# : Uncle Java : Aunt If C# and Java are our parents siblings and we're older by quite a bit then them, then... that implies some sort of shady things in our family tree! Maybe Grandpappy married a bombshell just out of high school and managed to knock her up. Then again, we did take some stuff from both. So maybe C# and Java are our neighbors, and our sister had an affair with one of them and got knocked up, and so we got the "logging" package and decorators and. Er. I fail at this analogy. Ruby: Cousin > I can see this. > Perl : Girlfriend > You seriously need to duck and run for cover at this one. Someone on one of our sides is going to throw a rock at you now. :) --S
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