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Lefty Mark's avatar

Al Sharpton is Obama's what? I didn't even know he competed in NASCAR!

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Pierre_de_Fermat's avatar

PL/I written by a committee? I remember it was promising, but never delivered.

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Pierre_de_Fermat's avatar

Oh geeze, the old vi vs emacs war. If you got tired of that, there was also the unix vs vms war.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

It generates more pageviews. Plus it has helped the economy by creating a new computer peripherals market for keyboards with no lowercase letters and no punctuation other than the bang mark.

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Lefty Mark's avatar

"abysmal wages and zero benefits while spending a lifetime in dead end jobs"

But enough about my career...

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Lefty Mark's avatar

<i>[citation needed]</i>

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Lefty Mark's avatar

<i>In the beginning, there was Autocode...</i>

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Let's not be too quick to praise Biblical programmers. After all, they never did fix the Y0K problem.

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bobbert's avatar

Not Ada?

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bobbert's avatar

Thank you for that.

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jqheywood's avatar

He *must* favor vi, because emacs is a tool of the devil....

<ducks and flees the inevitable flamewar/>

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bobbert's avatar

Biggest question in the world: Which will happen first: commercially-viable fusion power or the singularity?

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bobbert's avatar

Does this involve smoking peyote?

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Ikimizi's avatar

Programmers who write buggy software will burn in hell for all eternity.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

when will white America take responsibility for all those white rampage killers and mass murderers?

Also too, for all you lily white concern trolls: maybe the black community would have better success dealing with all that black on black crime if they weren't more afraid of white cops than they are of black criminals

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

The good news about Biblical computer programming is that if your machine gets the blue screen of death, your hard drive will be resurrected in three days (assuming your RAID tower wasn't turned into a pillar of salt)

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