Do the writers have any programming experience? Because I’ve used most of those languages - and the comic actually makes very little sense. It’s trying to be funny in the same way as The Big Bang Theory, by using the subject’s superficial properties to get the non-nerds to think they’re “in” on the joke.
Probably not but it’s worth it for the final panels.
Then again, the panel seems to be originally from 2016, so I’m sure perceptions changed over time
PHP is no longer awful. There, I said it.
Same PHP knight. Same.
TIL that there is a Chuck Norris of programming. What a gigachad.
You have Perl:
You rescue the princess with a clever one liner and never realize that you returned her to the wrong country.
Your Perl script toils quietly in obscurity for decades - transporting random princesses to random countries.
When someone finally disables the Perl scipt, a cascade of unexpected consequences destroys your country.
Your have Fortran:
You rescue every princess in the world, in a massively parallel operation. Wait, none of these was a captured princess. You’ve accidentally kidnapped a lot of people. But you did it really fast.
You have Python:
You setup a virtual castle and create an elegant three line rescue solution. To get your elegant three line solution working at the actual castle, you level the castle one brick at a time. You accidentally free princess manually, and she helps you debug the final version of the now useless rescue script. But she agrees that it is a really elegant script.
you have c
you charge towards an emotion
Segmentation fault (core dumped)