This particular April Fool's joke goes back at least 30 years. I remember getting a chuckle out of it a long time ago.<p>For context for younger readers, it might be worth pointing out that there was for a while a sort of rivalry between C and Pascal adherents. C was the more "modern" and "professional" language, while Pascal was a "teaching" language (or so some of the arguments went). Windows was coded in C, while MacOS -- before it was called MacOS -- was largely Pascal, with a lot of hand-coded 68k assembly for flavor. Pascal devotees would make fun of C in about the same way that a Python programmer might make fun of Perl. C devotees responded by writing an awful lot more code than Pascal programmers did, which eventually shut them up pretty good.<p>Pascal got a boost out of OOP, but by 1995 or thereabouts Pascal didn't really have much of a future left, which was sort of a shame.
I believe that Linus Torvalds said something[1] in the spirit of this article about how Git was only adopted by the community due to how arcane it looks.<p>[1] <a href="http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linux-and-git/" rel="nofollow">http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linu...</a>
A well known hoax. For that matters, the quoted source code is a part of Carl Shapiro's submission to IOCCC 1985 [1] which produces a maze. This alone is enough for debunking the story, right?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ioccc.org/1985/shapiro.c" rel="nofollow">http://www.ioccc.org/1985/shapiro.c</a>
I must confess that for a moment you got me there.<p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html</a>
Wow, it's been a long time since I checked this joke for the last time! At that time I read the version that was translated into my mother tongue (Korean). Now I read this in its native form.
here is an interesting talk that will make you better see the doublespeak of this old hoax:<p><a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6574_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301245_-_why_are_computers_so_and_what_can_we_do_about_it_-_peter_sewell.html#video" rel="nofollow">http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6574_-_en_-_...</a>