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If programming languages were cars...

A pretty cool read!

If programming languages were cars...

My favorite:

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Haskell is not really a car; it's an abstract machine in which you give a detailed description of what the process of driving would be like if you were to do it. You have to put the abstract machine inside another (concrete) machine in order to actually do any driving. You're not supposed to ask how the concrete machine works. There is also a way to take multiple abstract machines and make a single abstract machine, which you can then give to the concrete machine to make multiple trips one after another.

I came out of the pub one night and saw seven of my abstract machines, but I couldn't find the concrete one. I had to settle for crawling down the gutter.

Concrete cars are overrated in my experience.

ActionScript: Nobody really knows how to drive this car, yet there are thousands of them out there.