It's like Monty Python in paper form!

Monty Python and The Muppets separately had sketches about animals trained/tuned to squeal at a particular pitch when hit. They were assembled into an instrument that allowed a sadist play tunes on them with hammers.

Between the timbre of the notes and the look of the 'keys', from start to finish I couldn't stop thinking of this instrument as the same, but using pleasure instead of pain (if you get my meaning).

Yeah, he did touch on the need for multi-person team to do all critical inspections, and a culture/policy failure that led to this physical failure. At least no one was hurt (yet), and hopefully that culture will change as a result of the massive effects of closure and cost to repair.

"Those responsible have been sacked." was just a Monty Python reference- I didn't mean to imply more than 1 person was fired (but probably should be more)

When People are being divided by fake news Monty Python doesn't make it better Facts and truth.

As long as it's not the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python's Holy Grail...

Monty Python. Holy Grail.

What do I win, Monty!? *nervously rubs hands together*

As a kid:

- C64 BASIC interpreter
- Pascal

As a teenager/student/intern:

- Perl scripts
- Java
- x86 ASM
- C

20 years later, in video game development:

- C++ (/14, /17) for PC and console game clients
- HLSL for GPU shaders
- Python for support scripts and build systems
- Typescript/JavaScript for web client games
- C# for Unity games

Not me, but some of our backend server guys even use Go.

I was thinking I can pretty much calculate my age from that video.

C is my native tongue (but was far from my first language) but I just realised it's probably 20 years since I used it in anger. I do the odd bit of scripting at home and work, and still have an android app to scratch a personal itch that I keep failing to make time for.

I'm also surprised at the recent stats - some languages far lower than I'd expected, some far higher. It is nice to see Python up there - as a Monty Python fan I remember seeing it very early on and have been urging it on ever since.

Python 3 and BASH. I supposed I should pick up some more Ruby, but it's becoming more and more of a corner-case language. I really do miss programming in X86 Assembly. Assembly is such a pure language and such a delight to work with.

I totally admire pure Java and C programmers.

I'm surprised that C++ never really grew to the size of C (until like 2010).

I'm also a bit surprised that JavaScript is currently outmatched by Python and that C# and Ruby are so far down the list.

The Miracle of Birth - Monty Python has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

*related=https://videosift.com/video/The-Miracle-of-Birth-Monty-Python

Sums it up nicely.
*Python

This show is quite hilarious at times. The premise is ridiculous, Python-esque in execution, therein lies its charms. Just what I need to watch when I need to get away from over-reading the horrible news of endless disaster after another.