C# and Java Weekday Languages, Python and Ruby For Weekends?

Dan Lorenc writes "Using the StackOverflow.com data dump, I measured the activity of various programming languages throughout the week. The results: Ruby and Python saw a rise in questions asked on the weekend while C# and Java saw a dropoff in activity on the weekend. This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use. Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a programming language for a project at work."

What about Perl?

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

Where does Perl fit into all of this? Is that at night when the leather and chains come out?

Re:What about Perl?

[schmidt349]

Of course. What exactly did you think

use strict;

means?

Programming lanugages - just like mullets

[boguslinks]

Java in the front, Python in the back

Re:WWTBD?

[lukas84]

No, it clearly shows that shops using C# and Java employ lazy bastards that don't work on weekends ;)

Re:Programming lanugages - just like mullets

[slarrg]

You seem to be built wrong, my python is in the front.

Re:WWTBD?

[LaissezFaire]

<quote><p>"Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a programming language for a project at work."J</p><p>What would the boss do? Maybe he'd come to the conclusion that Java and C# are for professionals while Python and Ruby are for hobbyists?</p></quote>

I think it's that Java and C# make more sense when the drinking starts, but Python and Ruby make less.

I have a different conclusion

[larry bagina]

I spend my weekends drinking and getting pussy (There's a vapid slut still passed out in my bed right now). Python and ruby are for guys who have no social life and/or can't get laid.

Re:I think you're doing it wrong..

[Anonymous Coward]

> You are and idiot!

FAIL.

Re:What about Perl?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

And judging from your gratuitous use of capital letters, I guess you're writing all your code on punch cards.

Re:I have a different conclusion

[NewbieProgrammerMan]

Python and ruby are for guys who have no social life and/or can't get laid.

You've got it all wrong; obviously those languages are used by porn stars that are so tired after getting laid all week that they'd rather code on the weekend.

Re:What about Perl?

[arevos]

What is wrong with the use his use of caps?
I think it is very readable as is.

I too see NOTHING wrong with HIS use of CAPITALIZATION.

Re:I think you're doing it wrong..

[digitalunity]

I can write unmaintainable shitty Java code. The language doesn't prevent me from being a complete idiot.

Want to watch?

Re:What about Perl?

[Presto Vivace]

Perl is for formal occassions, like when you wear hat and gloves.

Re:What about Perl?

[SuperKendall]

Maybe Perl programmers don't post questions on a web site, they just write code and read the docs when they don't know something?

Having read Perl, I'm pretty sure Perl programmers simply keep typing regardless.

Re:WWTBD?

[Jherico]

Nah, it shows that while C# and Java developers are using Stack Overflow on the job, Ruby and Python developers find it hard to ask questions while asking 'you want fries with that?'

Re:What about Perl?

[fractoid]

I see someone rolled a natural 20 on their smug check.

Re:What about Perl?

[Anonymous Coward]

my $robe;
my $wizard_hat;

me->put_on($robe);
me->put_on($wizard_hat);

me->cast($Lvl_3{"Eroticism"})

(Apologies if I mangled the syntax. My perl is kind of rusty these days.)