Google’s Code search is a great way to spend an evening. Indexing a hefty amount of source code reveals anger, frustration and hate. Some favourites: I hate Java Java sucks Python sucks I hate Microsoft I hate DTDs (that is REXML by the way…) Interestingly, searching for “Ruby sucks” does not return any matching documents…
When I studied social antropology a couple of years ago I never thought that it would influence my future programming endeavours. At that time we looked at theories on how things in our surroundings influence thought processes. One theory is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It states: “…there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it....