The Parable of the Languages

ziggy on 2002-10-09T15:59:29

Burningbird's The Parable of the Languages (via Simon StL on xml-dev):

The languages stopped their talking at once. Who was it that called out? They counted heads and arranged themselves alphabetically (C++ having to position Basic, because it never did learn the alphabet), and counted heads again and came up with the same answer from the North, South, East, and West -- all the programming languages were accounted for.

As they puzzled and wondered, the bushes at the end parted and XML walked into the light.

Read on for a rather satisfying conclusion. :-)

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Beautiful!

gnat on 2002-10-09T16:09:35

Through by the fifth language's soliloquy I was thinking: "So that's what she's doing instead of working on her book!" :-)

--Nat

Re:Beautiful!

jjohn on 2002-10-09T19:36:54

"So that's what she's doing instead of working on her book!"

Be fair -- the book she's working on is 'Essential Blogging'. I assume she was merely doing research. ;-D

Re:Beautiful!

gnat on 2002-10-09T20:06:06

Nope, she's working on an RDF book right now. Or not, as the case may be :-)

--Nat
(chief hypocrite: use.perling instead of adding articles to Chapter 12)