Comments on: If a programming language was a boat…

By: Spyros

Spyros — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:04:17 +0000

hehe, very nicely designed. I would put more load on the java boat though

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Venturing beyond the office, with Computer Science | CompSci.ca/blog — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:08:49 +0000

[...] Inside a shipping container, in the middle of an ocean… Original photo by cfarivar, reused from another boat post [...]

By: snuxoll

snuxoll — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:20:11 +0000

What amuses me is all of the PHP fanboys getting bent out of shape over the authors comparison for ruby. We rubyists are perfectly content to move on with life when anyone makes a stupid argument about our language (zomg rails is slow, but rails isn’t ruby, and it’s not the only framework out there as well), but as soon as someone points out that PHP is just a bucket of functions you start making pointless arguments like ‘everyone is using it!’.

Grow up.

By: theRemix

theRemix — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:08:14 +0000

haXe would be a Decepticon

http://www.cliffbee.com/reviews/images/thundershell.gif

not that haXe is fake, plastic, fictional, or a toy.

By: theRemix

theRemix — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:07:54 +0000

Actionscript

agreed @JD

or Bumper Boats!
http://www.summerlandfunpark.com/boats.jpg
Can’t really ’sail’ outside of the ‘pool’ but it’s really, really fun in here.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:31:37 +0000

Pascal – pedal catamaran, easy to use, but not for overseas travels.

Delphi – catamaran yacht, comfort and fast. You can easily add and use helipad, smimming pool, guns and missiles, sail, cargo crane and many other third-party modules.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:30:13 +0000

Ooh, I don’t know, depends how you define ‘powerful’. It’s slower than C (still fine except for complex mathematical stuff), but AFAIK the bundled modules have more capability.

For more about it, and the Python way of doing things, run a python interactive prompt and type ‘import this’, or google “The Zen Of Python” (it’s a short poem).

By: PoWl

PoWl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:08:10 +0000

I totally disagree with the statement about objective-c. Objective-C is much more a hovercraft that nobody dares to drive. One time driven you want leave it!

By: eric

eric — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:10:28 +0000

when it comes down to it theres only one worthwhile programing language, and that is ada. ada is by far the best language ever

By: eric

eric — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:08:19 +0000

its this really lightweight and easy to use programming languague, its also open source. really easy to learn. not as powerful as c++ or anything though.