Language | Transportation | Comment |
Perl
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Muscle car
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Old school, still pretty awesome
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C
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Shoes
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Get EXACTLY where you want to be
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C++
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Airplane
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Complicated enough yet?
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Go
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Hydraplane
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Like C++, but the landing is easier
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Lua
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Roller blades
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Whip this out anywhere
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C#
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Car
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Fast, comfortable and convenient
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Lisp
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Vostok rocket
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Amazingly futurist, and yet strangely outdated
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Haskell
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Segway
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A curiosity not fit for practical use
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COBOL
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Flintstones car
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Your grandparents thought it was obsolete
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Python
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Bike
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Fun but slow
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Ruby
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BMX
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Python for cool kids
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Brainfuck
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Slinky
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Well TECHNICALLY it can go anywhere
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Prolog
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Zeppelin
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slow, useless and outdated, but still awesome
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Pascal
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Antique Bentley
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Fond memories
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Bash
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Elevator
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Not hip, but practical
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Javascript
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Subway
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You're not anything special
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Typescript
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Tramway
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At least the view is nicer
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VHDL
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Steamroller
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A vehicle that enables other vehicles!
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Objective-C
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Hummer
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In some places it's the only thing you'll see - and you'll only see it there
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Java
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Astronaut suit
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Will run ANYWHERE, but damned inconvenient to do anything with
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PHP
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Motorized wheelchair
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hurr durr
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Some Classic ASP in VBScript and SQL Server tips, flavored with rhetorical rants, commentary and other useless blather.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
If Programming Languages were Transportation
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