http://programming-motherfucker.com/buy.html

I'm seriously considering buying this...all 3 types even lmfao!!!

wear the fully obfuscated shirt over the semi-obfuscated shirt over the un-obfuscated shirt. then do a strip tease to show my pro-reversing skillz lah.

edit: wow I put "bot" instead of "bought" in the thread title...my mind is clearly on hax-mode atm.

This post was edited by PartyInMyPants on Jul 10 2012 03:25pm

I don't get it.

why are you in the programming forum then

Because I don't really find a t-shirt that screams "Programming" as if it were even a language to be all that interesting or funny.

programming is not one language, but a collection of languages...that enable us to function as a modern society.

"programming" isn't a collection of languages. it is not a set. as a prefix to "language" it may be used to describe a particular category or type of language (which is not the same as a collection of languages, by the way).

as a word in and of itself, it has nothing to do with languages.

as a shirt, it just completely doesn't work, because if anything, it conveys that the wearer doesn't know anything about programming at all, and given the point of such a shirt, i find that incredibly ironic.

which leads me to ask: do you have any fucking clue what programming even is? why are you in this forum?

This post was edited by irimi on Jul 10 2012 03:52pm

I think the shirt implies:

- "<insert programming language>, motherfucker. do you speak it?"

when you say someone is "programming" - you are referring to the act of "speaking" a programming language - and speaking implies entering "instructions" onto your PC. you are conveying your understanding of the language in the form of written code.

You could say, "I am speaking English motherfucker. Do you speak it?"

"Assembly motherfucker. Do you speak it?"

This post was edited by PartyInMyPants on Jul 10 2012 04:03pm

The shirt doesn't imply that - it tries to say it but fails miserably to do so. But the reality is that "Do you speak programming?" is the most retarded sentence ever, and regardless of whether you're implying one thing or another, that's exactly what the shirt says.

And in any case, digging deeper reveals that "Programming, Motherfucker" is just some religion started up by Shaw to rebel against processes and various software development methodologies. While he's certainly done some great work with his books (i.e. LPTHW), this "movement" (if you can even call it that) isn't exactly one of his brightest ideas... much less the t-shirt.

This post was edited by irimi on Jul 10 2012 04:06pm

I think the point is for it to be retarded...because retarded is often funny - e.g. trolls are often retarded and hilarious at the same time. The point is for you to understand that it is retarded and to know what it is actually trying to say.

This post was edited by PartyInMyPants on Jul 10 2012 04:07pm

I agree that retarded can be funny. But it doesn't work here for me (and I suspect for many others), because you can't have an in-your-face declaration that's retarded.