How Devotees of Older, More Traditional Programming Language X See Newer, Different Programming Language Y

by Joey deVilla on February 17, 2008

They see it in pretty much the same way that Grandma sees the remote:

Comic: “How Grandma Sees the Remote”

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1 BenRifkah February 17, 2008 at 6:49 pm

A funny variation on A. Clarke’s third law.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

I’ve been searching for a way to voice this particular corollary for some time. Such as “Any sufficiently terse syntax is indistinguishable from line noise”. Such as Perl as seen from a Pythoners perspective.

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