Programming Languages and their car equivalent

[Mike]

Hi all

Found this and although not strictly Linux related thought a few of you might enjoy (apologies in advance if it has been posted before):

With such a large selection of programming languages it can be difficult to choose one for a particular project. Reading the manuals to evaluate the languages is a time consuming process. On the other hand, most people already have a fairly good idea of how various automobiles compare. So in order to assist those trying to choose a language, we have prepared a chart that matches programming languages with comparable automobiles.

Assembler
A Formula I race car. Very fast, but difficult to drive and expensive to maintain.
FORTRAN II
A Model T Ford. Once it was king of the road.
FORTRAN IV
A Model A Ford.
FORTRAN 77
A six-cylinder Ford Fairlane with standard transmission and no seat belts.
COBOL
A delivery van. It's bulky and ugly, but it does the work.
BASIC
A second-hand Rambler with a rebuilt engine and patched upholstery. Your dad bought it for you to learn to drive. You'll ditch the car as soon as you can afford a new one.
PL/I
A Cadillac convertible with automatic transmission, a two-tone paint job, white-wall tires, chrome exhaust pipes, and fuzzy dice hanging in the windshield
C
A black Firebird, the all-macho car. Comes with optional seat belts (lint) and optional fuzz buster (escape to assembler).
ALGOL 60
An Austin Mini. Boy, that's a small car.
Pascal
A Volkswagen Beetle. It's small but sturdy. Was once popular with intellectuals.
Modula II
A Volkswagen Rabbit with a trailer hitch.
ALGOL 68
An Aston Martin. An impressive car, but not just anyone can drive it.
LISP
An electric car. It's simple but slow. Seat belts are not available.
PROLOG/LUCID
Prototype concept-cars.
Maple/MACSYMA
All-terrain vehicles.
FORTH
A go-cart.
LOGO
A kiddie's replica of a Rolls Royce. Comes with a real engine and a working horn.
APL
A double-decker bus. Its takes rows and columns of passengers to the same place all at the same time. But, it drives only in reverse gear, and is instrumented in Greek.
Ada
An army-green Mercedes-Benz staff car. Power steering, power brakes and automatic transmission are all standard. No other colours or options are available. If it's good enough for the generals, it's good enough for you. Manufacturing delays due to difficulties reading the design specification are starting to clear up.
Scheme
a Citroen 2CV. Small, simple, and light. Can be easily understood by almost anybody and can be completely disassembled with one spanner (whilst in motion). Most missing features can be added.
Smalltalk
a Harvester school bus, full of classes of chattering kids. Sure is slow but everybody gets to school. Previously used by a bunch of hippies and pranksters to tour round parks in California. Still shows it's psychedelic origins in its paint job and windows.
Simula67
a blue SAAB 96. Been around since the early 70s, but still runs fine despite its mileage. Still uses the original 3 cylinder engine. Difficult to get parts, but the owner would never dream of selling it. A classic.
C++
a Honda CRX 1.6i 16 valve. Compact and sporty, but safe. Elegantly engineered, with just enough room for two people. Almost as quick as a Firebird, but handles better in the wet. Body shape very similar to the SAAB 96.
Fortran 8X
Ford's new prototype car for the 1990's. Still not released. Believed to be a cross between a Ford Pinto and a Abrams tank, it has the firepower of the former and the fuel consumption of the latter. Still capable of using spare parts from a Model T. Expected to find widespread use in industry as a tow truck.

Cheers
Mike

[Vince Martin-Smith]

Many a true word is spoken in jest :)

[Vince Martin-Smith]

Hi all,
Slightly off-topic - but I know some of you might have a solution here.


Wondering if anyone has access to a conversion utility which handle
OST files.
Before saying - "there are utilities around..." yes their are.
There are also "free" ones - but all the ones I have tried so far
only export the first 25 emails. Grrr! Even one on sourceforge - no
source and only hobbled binary .exe file disguised as a source file.

But I find it hard to pay USD$59 for a file conversion tool I'll only
use once if someone already has one :)
These are the Offline cache files created when using Exchange.
Unfortunately the Exchange server is no more and I need to pull it all
into Maildir format.

Options are:

1) export emails into Maildir format
2) export emails into .eml files
3) convert ost to pst format file
4) extract raw emails as text

The same goes for the address book which appears to be embedded in the
OST file too. Can import as CSV or whatever into Thunderbird no prob.

Cheers
Vince