Overt humor isn't usually Ruby Inside's thing, but it's the holiday season, so there's nothing wrong with kicking up your heels and having a little fun. Don't worry - this won't become a habit. Promise! After the fold, check out a chart showing how programming language fanboys (Ruby's included) see each other's respective languages.
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Comments
Rizwan Reza ·
Wow! :)
Love it, thanks for sharing!
Andrew Stone ·
This is great, but I must admit I don't get the image of the "Java as seen by C fanboys" image. Is this an internet meme I missed (very possible)?
taelor ·
nice find, awesome.
Ericson Smith ·
I can't stop laughing. My stomach hurts with laughing. Because its so true.
joe mcdonald ·
was this inspired by Joey Devilla's "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" ?
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/12/16/how-fanboys-see-operating-systems/
Waseem ·
Awesome :)
Matthew Lang ·
If I were a PHP developer I don't think I would want to see my language as the "Toolman Taylor" of programming languages! The super heroes for Ruby is slightly biased though, isn't it?
Dare I suggest we add a column for *whispers* C#?
Libo ·
Can we have .NET in the matrix please? :)
Nick Martin ·
Where's the Python?
Quakeboy ·
Dumb !
Thomas R. Koll ·
the PHP seen by PHP fanboys is totally ok, just have a closer look on the array functions in php. Practical but no overall design, just like the toolman. What worries me is ruby seen by php and vice versa. I see php as spaghetti, tough flying and devine is certainly not php-ish but ruby-ish.
rodrigo3n ·
very logic.
nowheregirl ·
i kinda agree with java fanboys LOL
Tom Morris ·
PHP as seen by Java (and Ruby) fanboys is awesome. Toot toot! Geek Squad coming through!
(I say this as a Java - actually, mostly JVM, but Java is okay - and Ruby fanboy who used to do PHP.)
C#? Hmm. I'd say it's one of those kids who gets taught abstinence-only education by their fundamentalist parents but then does anal "because that doesn't really count as sex". Kinky but repressed, I guess. (It looks as boring as Java - hell, it's Microsoft and how dull is that. But it's got closures and Array.Map and all sorts of other FP magic. And Mono.)
Now I've done that, someone else needs to come up with horribly unfair stereotypes of JavaScript, Perl, Scala and Objective C.
C guy ·
At first I agreed with you Matthew, that the super heroes for Ruby might be a little biased. But then I realized that Star trek is a lot less fanciful than the group of super heroes..
but its all great! cheers
John Koh ·
re: C#
LYNCH HIM!!!!
just kidding.
Arie ·
LOL for Ruby as seen by Ruby fanboys !
Where are Assembly, Cobol, Prolog, LISP, Erlang, Haskell, Smalltalk, Perl, ADA, Python, and GoLang ?
GS ·
My best are Ruby as seen by Java fanboys and vice versa. Office Space FTW!
yourofl10 ·
Haha, very funny. Nice find.
Robby Colvin ·
That seriously made my day. Thank you!!!!
bumpkin ·
@Libo: That's easy; it'd just be this image across the board:
http://jan.hebnes.dk/dump/arguing-retard.jpg
My employer recently hired a guy that came from a .NET house -- we develop primarily in PHP -- and I can't how many blank stares he has given us for basic programming tasks; things like for loops and MySQL database queries are too complicated for him to code/figure out.
François ·
Funny and pretty spot on, except that it seems to me, that the pictures for PHP .. by Ruby fanboys, and Ruby ... by PHP fanboys should be reversed. (Ruby devs view PHP as spaghetti/octopus-code, PHP devs see Ruby as wannabe-superman).
Java seems to get the worst rap of the bunch ... (love the Office Space pic).
moi ·
I'm soooo Java fanboy:D
Oscar ·
Java have positive perception among other programming languages fanboys ( except for C ) PHP has negative.
I agree!
Danny Tatom ·
To help clear the confusion of flying spaghetti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Pretty sure the joke isn't that Ruby has spaghetti-code. ;D
AJ ·
How about Adding Perl, Python..
Jakub Lédl ·
"C#? Hmm. I'd say it's one of those kids who gets taught abstinence-only education by their fundamentalist parents but then does anal "because that doesn't really count as sex". Kinky but repressed, I guess. (It looks as boring as Java - hell, it's Microsoft and how dull is that. But it's got closures and Array.Map and all sorts of other FP magic. And Mono.)"
Well, you're surely a biased Unix geek (only joking ;-) )
I must say I love Unix (in form of Mac OS X, NOT f*cking Linux!), and I love Ruby, but .NET is IMHO most powerful programming platform (I'm not saying only C#, you can use VB.NET, J#, IronPython, even IronRuby). C# is not even close to Ruby when it comes to pleasure of programming or fun of it, but .NET is blazing fast, it can do just EVERYTHING (Desktop, Web, Mobile, you can do both highlevel and lowlewel programming with it) and it has farly most powerful tools out there (Entity Framework and LINQ in general, ASP.NET (MVC), WCF, WPF and Silverlight...).
On the other side, trying to use Mono for a REAL project was one of the most horrid experiences of my life ;-)
.NET and Ruby have both their pros and cons, but I think you cannot directly say which one is better (if you are objective).
Keith ·
Seems a little dated. Presumably this was dreamt up by someone mired in Ruby and/or PHP who has not kept up with 21st century languages. I suspect the author was more likely trying to figure out how to include Cobol than how to account for Scala, Groovy & Clojure.
Peter Cooper ·
Keith: You're right - it's about languages people actually use.
Cliffy ·
What about BrainFuck?
lulz wut ·
Pretty much everyone sees PHP as the language of the foolish. Well, except the PHP fools.
LOL
type ·
http://dl.javaeye.com/upload/attachment/184863/d5033fe0-7778-3198-940b-1d6aed45d305.jpg
type ·
OOPS!haskell valid link:
http://axgle.github.com/images/haskell.jpg
josh ·
I second the confusion over "Java as seen by C fanboys". What is that a picture of, exactly? Looking more deeply (which is always a bad idea with things like this!) I find it ironic that a black man would be associated with a language that is as corporate, (and white/asian) as Java.
Marco Montini ·
Excellent. I think the Cross-Section showing how each see's the other is Perfect(!) I actually think it describes the language differences in some part. Really good.
pata ·
Oh my god, it's Pookie.
College Campus ·
Lol. this is funny. I love the ruby on rails.
b davis ·
Cliffy: for Brainfuck all pictures would just depict a penis penetrating the space between the left and right frontal lobes lol.
petesrus ·
I love it... very funny. I'd change the C fanboy view of Java into a guy with a bicycle helmet and all sorts of fall padding as in "it's a safe language but clunky and weighs you down."
Guoliang Cao ·
Agree with François: Ruby by PHP fanboys and PHP by ruby fanboys are kind of reversed.
What is the meaning of pic for C by PHP fanboys?
Jakob ·
@type nice try but the view of / by Haskell could be more diverse. Maybe Lisp is similar - it looks like a can of worms or a labyrinth to other fanboys. I'd love to see some more used languages like Perl. Can we use a Wave or Wiki to make changes or additions?