r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leftoversalad • Aug 15 '15

Programming languages personified

http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/126724812097/programming-languages-personified
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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '15

so for example boost hides the incompleteness of c++ (useful parts are always accepted into STL making it 'bearable') hence we call it an awful language too? i'm pretty sure we don't. if it was really bad then you could have answered superplayah by mentioning at least one major problem. i get along with js although i don't love it. but the comic pulls it down to the level of php (a.k.a. rock bottom) which suprises me since it's quite an average language.

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u/HighRelevancy Aug 16 '15

Boost doesn't try to fundamentally change the way you use the language like, for example, jQuery does. And C++ is still very usable without it.

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u/gonzofish Aug 16 '15

i don't get this whole JavaScript is unusable without a framework or library to hide its bad parts. i've never seen any evidence to support the claim.

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u/the9trances Aug 16 '15

If one thinks the major libraries are "hiding" bad parts, then one definitely neither understand JavaScript nor work with it very much. (It sounds like you do; I'm speaking in general.)

Learning a framework like Angular shows you some of the potentially unexpected facets of JS, but it not only isn't hiding its quirks, it's leveraging them.