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by danohuiginn 16y ago
Similarly, programming languages as relationship styles:
http://maradydd.livejournal.com/293666.html http://maradydd.livejournal.com/293666.html
Sample (from the comments):
"I don't think C gets enough credit. Sure, C doesn't love you. C isn't about love--C is about thrills. C hangs around in the bad part of town. C knows all the gang signs. C has a motorcycle, and wears the leathers everywhere, and never wears a helmet, because that would mess up C's punked-out hair. C likes to give cops the finger and grin and speed away. Mention that you'd like something, and C will pretend to ignore you; the next day, C will bring you one, no questions asked, and toss it to you with a you-know-you-want-me smirk that makes your heart race. Where did C get it? "It fell off a truck," C says, putting away the boltcutters. You start to feel like C doesn't know the meaning of "private" or "protected": what C wants, C takes. This excites you. C knows how to get you anything but safety. C will give you anything but commitment
In the end, you'll leave C, not because you want something better, but because you can't handle the intensity. C says "I'm gonna live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse," but you know that C can never die, not so long as C is still the fastest thing on the road.""
- steveklabnik 16y agoWhen people ask me why I prefer Ruby over Perl, I generally ad-lib something like this: "Perl is kinda like that girl you dated back in high school; she was pretty at the time, but you were less knowledgeable and the pool of possibilities was much smaller. You're always glad to hear she's doing well, but that doesn't mean you want to get back together. Instead, you now have this gorgeous Japanese girl named Ruby that you met in college... she's really flexible, in ways you didn't even know Perl could have been."
- Groxx 16y agoRuby is also a prude compared to Perl. Perl's variables are global by default.