If a programming language falls in the woods... http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000447.html As I was reviewing feeds on Syndic8 I happened across when push comes to pop and this little gem: Collated... wkearney 2003-08-07T09:07:15-05:00 http://www.ideaspace.net/users/wkearney/archives/entries/000447.html en-us As I was reviewing feeds on Syndic8 I happened across when push comes to pop and this little gem: Collated... 2003-08-07T09:07:15-05:00 As I was reviewing feeds on Syndic8 I happened across when push comes to pop and this little gem:

Collated from IRC:

Fitz and I [kfogel] were just speculating about what various programming
languages sound like when you drop them.



Fortran       crunch

Perl          *thud* +bounce+ ~quiver~ (fading into silence)

C++           loud and messy, like if you took everything in a

              junkyard, connected it all together with cable, and

              dropped the whole mess from a cliff.

Lisp/Scheme   same sound as dropping a slinky

Java          no sound, already been dropped

The Inevitable Update: From Brendan.


PHP            sproing sproing ("stupid blasted") sproing ("off my 

               lawn") sproing

Python         Just like anything else, if air was Jell-O

Smalltalk      "Ouch!"

Pascal         *Crash.*  Now, did you notice how that sounded?  If you 

               were actually dropping something, it would have sounded 

               a lot like that.  Let's try again.

COBOL          (THUD)

Visual Basic  "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you drop me."

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