Secret of a Successful Programming

Do you know the Secret of a Successful Programming Language?

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Answer is A Really Great Beard.

According to Kahson’s playful analysis, there’s a direct correlation between the success of a programming language and the length of the hair growing on the face of the man who built it. And he may have a point (see photos below).

If you don’t believe then we can take some successful programmer example.

• Java inventor James Gosling, a clear sign that the success of a programming language depends on facial hair 

•  C CREATORS KEN Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, genius guys with genius beards 

• C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup had the necessary facial hair. But then he made the mistake of shaving it off

• John McCarthy, His beard survived for 50 years and so did Lisp.

According to Kahson’s playful analysis, there’s a direct correlation between the success of a programming language and the length of the hair growing on the face of the man who built it. And he may have a point (see photos above).

C is perhaps the most successful language of all time. At Bell Labs, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, it was used to build the UNIX operating system, which now forms the backbone of modern computing, and 30 years after busting out of Bell, it remains the world’s most popular language according to multiple studies. Some attribute its success to Brian Kernighan’s seminal book The C Programming Language. Others point to the genius of its designers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. But more than genius, they had really great beards.

The second most popular programming language on the planet is Java. Fifteen years after its debut, it has suffered the ignominy of being closely associated with Oracle, but it remains the language of choice on everything from Android smartphones to cloud services driving massive video applications. And the man who built it, James Gosling, knows how to grow some serious facial hair.

The world’s third most popular language? It’s probably C++, a derivative of C also developed at Bell Labs. And its developer, Bjarne Stroustrup, rocked some great whiskers of his own. But C++ is still less popular than C, which could have something to with Stroustrup deciding to shave.

Clearly, the men who created today’s rising stars of the programming language world are well aware of Kahson’s beard research. Guido Van Rossum, the inventor of Python, is now trying to look like Ken Thompson, and the Python community has followed suit. And PHP man Rasmus Lerdorf is at least going for the closely cropped goatee/beard look.