Web Development Languages as Goodreads Users

I had a bit of a geek-out moment last night and this is the natural extension

Ruby (on Rails) - Loves YA despite being well outside her "teenage" years (hey, good lit should be easy to read!) Occasionally will pick up an adult mystery or romance, but has very specific rules about what she wants (no cheating, no character death, happy endings only please) and will knock a star off when books leave too much vague and open to interpretation.

PHP - Five stars everything ... that fic about mutant walnuts written all in lowercase with no punctuation? Who cares if it wasn't readable? SO CREATIVE!! Is an avid reader and thorough reviewer but you always find yourself reading crappy books on her recommendation.

Javascript - Into some very kinky things (functional programming! prototype inheritance!) but is scared people will think she's a freak and so sorts her favorites into other shelves that have nothing to do with why she really liked them (pretty-covers, reading-challenge) so that hopefully no one notices.

Python - Mentions "some spelling errors here" in her review after she notices one little typo on page 238 in an otherwise beautifully written and well edited book.

Node (server side Javascript) - Always finds the most fascinating looking genre busting books ... DNFs all of them after 20%. Never any explanation, just DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF-- Ooo look! A bit of tinsel stuck to a tree branch!

Java - Is currently reading three books by Dostoyevsky and writing a paper on Charles Dickens ... oh, she not in graduate school. She's doing this for fun. Doesn't everyone speculate on the intersection of early journalism and the nurturing of great writers for fun? Occasionally will read and review some "popular fiction", get a thousand likes and ends up getting everybody sued by Oracle because there was too much quoting from the copyrighted text.
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Published on July 08, 2012 05:08
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message 1: by Dani (new)

Dani Alexander I'm so anxious to know who his familiar enough with these comp languages to get this joke...

Meanwhile, I sadly do.


message 2: by Isa (new)

Isa K. Surprisingly there are more programmers and tech people on GRs than one might assume

....We should combine forces and fix their architectural scaling problems for them *lol*


message 3: by Emma Sea (new)

Emma Sea Bahahahaha. I know nothing about programming languages but I love your GR reader categories. I sadly fear I might be a Python.


message 4: by Isa (new)

Isa K. Emma C wrote: "Bahahahaha. I know nothing about programming languages but I love your GR reader categories. I sadly fear I might be a Python."

Seeing as Python is the language people tend to chose to do complex Big Data analysis and machine learning algorithms (i.e. 'People who liked this also liked this' recommendations), I'd say this is more fitting than you could ever possibly understand XD


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

I'm with Emma. It's funny even if you only have the vaguest idea of prgramming languages. I know these people!


message 6: by Lenore (new)

Lenore Funny :)

I'm 75% Python and 25% Javascript.


message 7: by Isa (new)

Isa K. Lenore wrote: "Funny :)

I'm 75% Python and 25% Javascript."


So basically you're a Boxee app? Okay no one is going to get that joke hahaha~ XD I crack myself up though.


message 8: by Lenore (new)

Lenore Isa wrote: "So basically you're a Boxee app? Okay no one is going to get that joke hahaha~ XD I crack myself up though."

I think you just gave me a complex.


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