Poll: If Yoda was a programmer, what would be his go-to language?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992173

by dpweb • 12 years ago

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levosmetalo• 12 years ago

It would be Forth, as his backward talk sounds pretty much like a RPN version of human language.

agumonkey• 12 years ago

Came to say Lisp because of http://xkcd.com/297/ but Forth gets ex-aequo.

Ardeof• 12 years ago

For(ce)tran

Pishky• 12 years ago

Haskell for me I like the most. Hmmmmmm

jordhy• 12 years ago

Definitely Lisp. That's where the force is.

Tarang• 12 years ago

I'd imagine any language which is multi threaded and with plenty of race conditions, because he'd code that perfectly knowing it would work fine.

higherpurpose• 12 years ago

Assembly, for using "raw force" and thinking about the fundamental principles of everything.

Uncompetative• 12 years ago

    do or do not where is no try catch exception

cgriswald• 12 years ago

Program? Yoda would do whatever he needed to do by flipping bits in real time using the force.

zserge• 12 years ago

If it is C - he would write "if (42 == answer) ... " instead of "if (answer == 42) ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

gghootch• 12 years ago

Definitely Assembly.

Luke: There's something not right here... I feel cold. Death.

Yoda: [points to a cave opening beneath a large tree] That place... is strong with the dark side of the Force. A domain of evil it is. In you must go.

Luke: What's in there?

Yoda: Only what you take with you.

smaudet• 12 years ago

You forgot Clojure

Luke - Java ; Qui-Gon Jinn - C++ ; Obi-Wan Kenobi - Perl ; Ki-Adi Mundi - Assembly ; Mace-Windu - C ; Count Duku - D ; Anakin Skywalker - Python ; Aayala Secura - Haskell ; Darth Maul - Ocaml ; Darth Vader - TypeScript ; The Emperor - C# ;

And while we're codifying Star Wars: Imperial Trooper - Microsoft Word Rebel Soldier - MarkDown Han Solo - Counter Strike Leia - Matlab (maybe) Boba/Jango Fett (both of them) - Metasploit Chewbacca - Worms C3P0 - Siri R2D2 - info

cl8ton• 12 years ago

C# obviously... do I win anything?

jqm• 12 years ago

The poll left out the obvious choice. Binary.

"Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda (and presumably no "except" block either").

Edit: reading the comments it appears someone beat me to the try-except joke.

mindcrime• 12 years ago

Brainfuck he would program.

ksmithbaylor• 12 years ago

Go, because out-of-normal-order the type declarations are.

KhalilK• 12 years ago

Avoid null behavior, Yoda will.

Java it is.

bitwize• 12 years ago

Strong with the Forth Yoda would be. YODA TALK-LIKE IF FORTH USE THEN

StephenGL• 12 years ago

What? No Object Pascal?

galvanist• 12 years ago

Something about the old MIT AI koans convinces me that yoda would be a lisp hacker; http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan

dmux• 12 years ago

Why isn't Perl listed?

Poll: If Yoda was a programmer, what would be his go-to language?

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