Okay, here we go again! In the last article in this series you came up with amazingly 40 hilarious comments on the topic celebrities who code. I look forward to see what you geniuses may come up with this time.
So here's today's topic. When YouTube goes down, highly trained monkeys join up to fix the problem as fast as possible. Monkeys may be the only non-human animal that codes, but what would other animals do if they were developers?
I believe them, why would they lie?
Use your imagination and comment funny suggestions of what it could be like to hire an animal as a developer. Here's some suggestions of mine, feel free to reuse the same animals if you want to.
- Pandas - would be pandastic programmers!
- Snails - would always be working from home
- Snakes - do I need to mention Python?
- Bugs - I have a feeling they would struggle finding a workplace who wants them
- Cows - they are more into hardware, they follow mooooores law
- Lions - strong partners for a startup, but expect them to take the lion share of the profit
- Sloths - would probably benefit using Copilot
- Sheep - may be sheep to hire, but is it worth it?
- Cats - wouldn't touch code, they would promote themselves to managers
- Pigs - dirty code, but they are actually pretty clever
- Moles - they would love to C#
- Bats - as long as you are fine with putting your screen upside down, they could maybe be worth hiring
- Dogs - would probably be their best. day. ever.
- Whales - hire one and you boss will call you in to talk about office expenses
I'm sorry Mr. Koala, but you always do the bear minimum of work
Top comments (19)
Cheetahs - Super fast developers that specialize in Swift and Go.
I once tried to hire a horse. Sadly it said neigh 🐴
Was it at least polite enough to add "Tack."?
It was polite, it said tack men nej tack!
Ah, I didn't suggest this because I didn't know if this was valid.
Like in English, is this something one would actually say? Or is this a translation?
We do say that. It's a polite way of saying no.
Unicorns — those devs that are always on, never make mistakes, and endlessly succeed... wait a minute do unicorns even really exist?!
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not an animal, but funny none the less:
/oops #jokes
Guido von Rossum said that the name of Python he picked was not related to any kind of reptiles (the images related to Python really annoys me; I hate it very much). Instead it referred to a figure in a circus called Monty Python. I would like to see the icon/logo of this programming language be replaced by that circus figure.
I like seeing the icon/logo of Go aka Golang Gopher; while ferris in Rust is not really impressive. What about Ant, a build tool for Java ? We can ask James Davidson why he picked the name of his creation.
Sometimes I see elephant is related to PHP.
Pandas are super clumsy and leave panda shaped trails of destruction behind them.
While hamsters just power everything by running on their wheels.
What about dragons though? Your fire marshal may not approve of them frequently burning the office down by accident but I am sure their code would be lit.
Octopuses on the other hand are super smart but their suckers might stick to everything even if the extra limbs help them get twice as much done.
As a cat furry I can confidently say the "cats" one is wrong.
don't forget python
All animals get their office nicknames from the HR, who maintain an updated list of who’s who here:
wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
Spider, Monkey.... Netscape (now Mozilla) seems to be impressed by these animals that they named their Javascript engine using these animals names.