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Programming languages personified - leftoversalad (leftoversalad.com)

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[-] CanadaPlus 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is epic.

Can anyone explain Java, PHP and Perl to me?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Java is extremely widespread in corporate companies - hence the suit and tie. Perl is fair to liken to spelunking deep into a dark cave with only your wits to save you.

PHP seems to be a reference to the fact that it's extremely common on servers... but it also might be a lazy phpbad joke - it's pretty weak either way (if you wanted to play into the server characteristic give it a dozen arms serving the entire restaurant in the background).

[-] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago

As a Perl dev, I dunno if that's how I'd characterize the language, but I'll take it over yet another "Perl is unreadable line noise lol and what's the deal with airline food" reference.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah, to be honest you can write good code in any language and it'll usually look pretty similar... all the perl stereotypes come from having to maintain shell scripts from someone kludging their way through learning to code... it's the same reason why phpbad, amateurs could get into webdev with php so there's an impression that all php is the php written by amateurs.

Also, bear in mind that over time these languages have converged through feature additions "LISP has functional programming - why can't PHP have first class functions... oh traits look neat, let's add that... you know those statically typed languages sure seem nice..."