The Relationship between Beards and Sucessful Programming Languages

http://maple-news.com/2008/05/25/the-relation-between-beards-and-the-succes-of-programming-languages/

Lets see how successful are a few programming languages.

The F# Language.

This is its creator, Don Syme. He doesn’t have a beard, which means his Programming language won’t be a big success.

Next- Prolog.

Look at Alain Colmerauer’s face. No beard – no success!

Now, C.

Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie all have a beard (more or less :D ) and as we all know C is one of the most succssesful programming languages.

C++

C++ is still one of the most popular programming languages – but it is getting more and more unpopular. Lets see why:

So, why does this happen?

Look at Bjarne Stroustrup’s face – now and then:

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Basic:

Basic was once one of the most popular programming languages – but today it is very unpopular. Do you ask why? Here is the answer – Thomas Eugene Kurtz’s (the creator) beard of course!

Then:

Now:

Perl

Perl is still a pretty common programming language.

Larry Wall – Good Job!

Python and Ruby.

Recently these two programming languages became very popular. You obviously know why…

Guido van Rossum (python)

And Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto (Ruby)
:D
Last, but not least- Java

Look at James Gosling’s beard. Did anyone say a picture can say more then a 1000 words?

And there are many more…

Enjoy!

The new EEE PC in a Keyboard

Very cool – but what use is the screen seriously other than perhaps diagnostics when plugging it into an external. Not to mention i cant imagine having a keyboard with 6 or 7 wires coming out of it, it would be somewhat restrictive for movement in any way.

Great LAN computer though or perhaps media PC stuck onto something (Embeded in a TV Cabinet or Coffee Table?)

In the news today (funny)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5041848/Teenager-paints-60ft-phallus-on-roof-of-family-home.html

A kid paints a 60 foot long penis on his parents roof for google earth, parents didnt notice until somebody flew over in a helicopter and told them about it !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5043287/Pilot-who-paused-to-pray-in-crash-landing-sentenced-to-10-years-in-jail.html

Legendary pilot decided to pray instead of trying to land a plane, he got 10 years in jail!