A catty list of programming languages

is here.

It contains Dijkstra's famous remark:

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Didn't hurt me none. Hee-yuk, hee-yuk.

Also, I object to the sample of "everyday C code", intended to demonstrate how cryptic the language is:

for( i=0; (c=getchar())!=EOF && c != '\n'; i++ )
    s[i] = c!='\t' ? c : ' ';

Everyday, perhaps, but that's not what good C code looks like; that's what you get from a smartass kid who thinks that cramming everything into one statement in the source code makes it go faster.

update: It links to this list which has many, many more languages, but doesn't say much about them. I'm happy that it mentions RPL.

I need to write more stuff

Gee, I can't imagine why I didn't get a Hugo nomination.

My story resembles those of the nominees in that it consists of a series of words arranged into sentences and paragraphs. Also, the words are spelled correctly, for the most part.

Update: Joe Haldeman still has it.