If APIs were food
- Cocoa: Who doesn’t like chocolate? Sweet and yummy.
- Java: Sort of like Cocoa, except not sweet and chocolatey. Not nearly as good as Cocoa. Alternate by Michael Buckley: Tastes extremely bitter, but many people are addicted to it.
- Carbon: Ew, coal.
- GTK (GNOME): Tough and gristly.
- Win32 (Windows): The glass will cut up your mouth, esophagus, and gastrointestinal tract. Some talented people can safely eat glass, but they are rare.
- Toolbox: *clank*
- .NET: Stringy.
- Mono: I’m not sure exactly what virus tastes like. Nor whether I want to find out. Alternate by Joshua Lock: Eating monkeys is a little too close to cannibalism for my liking.
- Python: Very lean.
- Perl: Hard.
- Ruby: Just like Perl.
- Haskell: I think he might object before you were able to get around to the business of eating him.
- Io: You’d have to be mighty hungry to eat a Jovian moon. Alternate: Hamburger! Always good.
Any others?
(The above is an original work by me, Peter Hosey. I say this because I know how jokes tend to lose their attributions over time.)
UPDATE 12:12: No, people, it’s about food! Read the title!
UPDATE 12:43: Expanded Io. Thanks, Colin!
UPDATE 2006-11-15 02:30: Added Michael Buckley’s suggestion to Java. Thanks!
November 14th, 2006 at 11:52:04
How about Qt: looks aren’t everything?
It’s pronounced cute you see …
OK, maybe not
November 14th, 2006 at 12:38:06
Actually, in Greek mythology, Io was a cow (that Zeus fooled around with). Cows are extremely delicious.
November 14th, 2006 at 19:09:13
I know you already have an entry for Java, but mine would be: “Tastes extremely bitter, but many people are addicted to it.”
November 22nd, 2006 at 04:02:31
Mono: eating monkeys is a little too close to cannibalism for my liking.
http://mono-project.com/FAQ:_General#What_does_the_name_.22Mono.22_mean.3F
October 30th, 2007 at 07:13:44
POSIX: You know, when you get right down to it, most everything pretty much tastes like chicken.
Linux Standard Base: Of course, chicken is better with strawberry chilli sauce. Oh, and those little aluminumy balls from cake decorations. And some squid. Mustn’t forget the squid.
WINE: Hey? You want windscreen glass sprinklies on your aluminum ball strawberry chilli chicken squid?
X11: Say… this doesn’t really look like the picture in the menu… And it’s been exposed way, way too long…
AmigaOS exec.library: Whaddaya mean, you don’t want your spaghetti bolognese in the middle of your lemon tart? It’s more efficient that way! Saves a whole course!