Quora: if programming languages were countries …

“If programming languages were countries, which country would each language represent?” over Quora is hilarious!  Here are a few bits to get you started:

C – Russia. Everything has to be done in a backwards way, but everything is possible, and there’s a lot of legacy.

C++ – USA. Powerful, but more and more complicated, unreadable, error-prone. Tends to dominate and influence everything.

Haskell – Monaco. Not many people, but very rich, so they don’t have to consider lower classes’ problems.

Java – Sweden. Comfortable, but has its own king and currency.

JavaScript – China. Developing really fast and can do lots of surprising stuff. A lot of users.

PHP – Bangladesh. Poor, but numerous, and it’s found all over the web.

Pascal – Germany. Strict rules, good performance. And there are many people who just don’t like the language.

Bash – Switzerland. Not very big in itself, but pulls the strings of the others.

Awk: North Korea. Stubbornly resists change, and its users appear to be unnaturally fond of it for reasons we can only speculate on.