The 4th law of programming language comparisons In any comparative discussion about programming languages, the probability that the conversation will mention Brainfuck or INTERCAL approaches 1 over time. (Based on years of empirical evidence as a scientist, programmer and unix hacker.) Like this post? Share on: Twitter ❄ Hacker News ❄ Reddit ❄ LinkedIn ❄ Email Comments So what do you think? Did I miss something? Is any part unclear? Leave your comments below. Comments Keep Reading The Go low-level calling convention on x86-64 (updated) What's new in 2020 and in Go 1.15 Errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ in 2020 Why and how exceptions are still better for performance, even in Go My Go executable files are still large What's new in 2021 and Go 1.16 The machine does not (yet) think outside of the box Unusual primitives in programming languages Published Jun 2016 Category Programming Tags analysis 24 computer science 6 eponymous law 1 programming languages 16 Stay in Touch