Facial Hair and Computer Languages

An anonymous reader writes "Tamir Khason from Israel has blogged about the direct connection between the amount of facial hair and the success of computer languages. Very funny, and it's the truth."

Bears?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Letâ(TM)s see whatâ(TM)s going on with C? Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson. They are fine. Still have very good bears, so C has long long life.

I understand the link you are trying to make with beards but you just throw this bear data in there taking the reader by surprise. Needless to say, I wish to learn more about this correlation of "good" bears and programming language success. Are these some kind of enforcer bears you speak of? If so, how are they "good?" Should we be afraid of Microsoft patenting our bear technology?

Some more examples

[Anonymous Coward]

These are examples of what is known as the progammer's dress code:

first [codethinked.com]
second [codethinked.com]

I think Woz has the essence of it.

So that means . . .

[UnknowingFool]

Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks]

Re:What about operating systems?

[morgan_greywolf]

I'm sure everyone's heard of the "Unix beard"?

Now, look here. My having a beard has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with me being a UNIX sysadmin. Nothing! Would you people just cut it out!

Computer languages have facial hair?

[PortHaven]

"facial hair and the success of computer languages"

I presume the article that is not loading is about the corresponding relationship of programmer's facial hair and the language they work in - versus computer languages themselves actually having facial hair.

C++ (that must be nasty hair growing out of an ear. I had a Chemistry professor with that problem in college)

Re:So that means . . .

[Culture20]

Someone should convince ZZ Top to make a new programming language called LEGS. [ducks]

Only women would know how to use it.

Me = Beard, Boss = No Beard

[PaulMorel]

My boss is constantly creating bugs in our software. He has no beard. QED.

Re:Me = Beard, Boss = No Beard

[morgan_greywolf]

My boss is constantly creating bugs in our software. He has no beard. QED.

You are so fired!

Your Boss

google-analytics.com

[mr_mischief]

OK, the story is funny. The most interesting things about it, though, are these:

1. there are stats on it collected by urchin (google-analytics.com/urchin.js)
2. A Microsoft site was slashdotted

Re:What about operating systems?

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

I wonder if that means that my evil, bearded twin in the Mirror Mirror universe is a better programmer than I am...

Re:google-analytics.com

[CaptainPatent]

OK, the story is funny. The most interesting things about it, though, are these...

A Microsoft site was slashdotted

Obviously Microsoft needs more beards!

Why?

[wootcat]

Of course! You need something to stroke as you sit back and ponder your next line of code.

Re:What about operating systems?

[DaedalusHKX]

Hmmm... I got clean shaven and got out of IT... grew a beard for awhile more and got out of sales... I dislike both, but it is a bit interesting... very interesting.

Judging by that, dwarves make the best programmers.

Re:Hmm

[Gilmoure]

Visigoths wore beards. I bet they coulda' taken Bath. If they coulda' got cross teh channel.

Here's a nickel, kid.

[turing_m]

Get yourself a better computer.

http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg [ozguru.mu.nu]

The missing data point is Niklaus WIrth

[kraut]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Niklaus_Wirth%2C_UrGU.jpg

Full beard, no real success for Pascal. Or Modula-2, or Oberon.

The exception that proves the rule.