While doing some cleanup on my delicious bookmarks tonight, I came across this picture on Ruby Central showing Yukihiro Matsumoto/”Matz” with his new Mac laptop. In this particular picture, if you squint just right (or perhaps it had something to do with the fact that it was nearly 3:00AM), there is a certain resemblance between Matz and Justin Long in the Apple Get a Mac ads.
Thinking that Matz kinda/sorta looked a bit like the “I’m a Mac” guy, my twisted sense of humor immediately wondered what his PC version counter part might be in the world of programming. Not knowing a whole lot about the current .Net world, I looked up the creator of C# who turned out to be one Anders Hejlsberg who much to my surprise looked a whole helluva lot like John “I’m a PC” Hodgeman.
Talk about life mirroring art, even their life’s work mirrors this stereotype (see the sample code below) with one being needlessly complex and verbose and the other being elegant and precise (of course I’m biased – but you already knew that). See for yourself:
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