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by luser 4450 days ago
And to continue....

Smalltalk - the most perfectly made jacket in the entire world but when you put it on, all your other clothes disappear.

Javascript - A jacket with legholes where the armhole should be, but you wear it because everyone else is wearing one.

Visual Basic - A jacket made out of bits of old carpet.

Haskell - A highly technically advanced jacket made out of nano particles that configure themselves to the wearer, but nobody wears them as the instruction manual is written in Sanskrit.

I disagree with your Perl jacket... a Modern Perl jacket would come with a magic incantation that when said over the jacket, it turns it into a bad-ass leather jacket that comes with a free Harley Davidson.

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JavaScript - more like a jacket with thousands of pockets. Some contain useful tools, usable by anyone with some experience of DIY. Others, extremely dangerous tools, many with their safety features disabled, usable only by qualified builders. There is no manual as to which is which.

CoffeeScript - A T-shirt and tie combo. You started with the intention to look smart, but got distracted by all the other cool looks you could potentially carry.

> JavaScript Half the pockets a full of dung, so you have to use fingers very carefully.

> CoffeeScript Also both are bright pink, because why wouldn't you come up with your own syntax sugar when you have such an option?