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From: WW8ZOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET (William Walborn)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Cars and Computer Languages
Message-ID: <90150.172258WW8ZOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 30 May 90 22:22:58 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Service
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Location: Oxford, Ohio - USA
Institute: Miami University
Chart That Matches Programming Languages
With Comparable Automobiles
Assembler A Formula 1 race car. Very fast, but difficult to
drive and expensive to maintain.
Fortran II A Model T Ford. Once it was king of the road.
Fortran IV A Model A Ford.
Fortran 77 A six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard
transmission and no seatbelts.
Cobol A delivery van. Bulky and ugly, but it does the work.
Basic A second-hand Rambler with a rebuilt engine and
patched upholstery. Your Dad bought it for you to
learn to drive. You'll ditch the car as soon as
you can afford a new one.
PL/I A Cadillac convertible with automatic transmission,
two-tone paint, white-wall tires, chrome exhaust
pipes, and fuzzy dice hanging in the windshield.
PL/M A Yugo with a voided warranty.
C A black Firebird - the all-macho car. Comes with
optional fuzzbuster (escape to ASSEMBLER).
ALGOL 60 An Austin Mini. Boy, that's a small car!
PASCAL A Volkswagen Rabbit with a trailer hitch (good
mileage, no performance).
ALGOL 68 An Aston Martin. Impressive, but not just anyone can
drive it.
LISP An electric car. Simple, but slow. No seatbelts
PROLOG/LUCID Prototype exotic concept cars.
MAPLE/MACSYMA All-terrain vehicles.
FORTH A go-cart.
LOGO A kiddie's replica of a Rolls Royce. Comes with a
real engine and a working horn.
APL A double-decker bus. It takes rows and columns of
passengers to the same place all at the same time,
but it only runs in reverse and the instruments
are in Greek.
ADA An Army green Mercedes-Benz staff car. Power
steering, power brakes, and automatic transmission
are all standard. No other colors or options are
available. If it's good enough for the Generals,
it's good enough for you.
Found tacked to the break room wall. From some magazine with a
section called Veronica's Corner. Who credits Daniel Soloman & David
Rosenblueth from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
(Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).
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