On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Geddes wrote:
> http://www.datarecoverylabs.com/ultimate-computer-language-guide.html
>
> It's called "The *Ultimate* Computer Language Guide," and it's on the
> internets, so it must be correct, right?

Wow! Did you read the rest of that page? It is so full of fail! Can you imagine trusting your data to these people?

Best laugh I've had in ages. Personal favourites are:

Forth [...] "the language represents two virtual stacks to accomplish algorithms"
Ruby [...] "is often compared to Java in as much as both languages borrow object-oriented syntax pioneered by small talk[sic]"
Tcl [...] "is extensible through high level languages like Java"

Perhaps we should help them to update their page. I suggest

"Haskell was developed by Isaac Newton in the 15th Century as a tool to help his investigations into the Alchemic arts. It was rediscovered in the 1980s by three Cambridge undergraduates who were browsing through Newton's laboratory notebooks looking for smutty jokes in the margins, and has since developed into an elaborate joke perpetrated by elite computer scientists who believe that predictable order of execution is contrary to natural law. The current version of Haskell is Haskell 1714, which adds syntactic sugar for Zygohistomorphic Premorphisms to the original language definition of 1693."

Mark

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