Programming language inventor or serial killer

[ewx]

http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/ (needs flash)

Comments

[terryfish.livejournal.com]

6/10

No wonder I hired scary people to code

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I got 7.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Gosh. I got 9 out of 10 right. And the one I got wrong I really couldn't decide on.

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

9/10, but having met Phil Wadler (the designer of Haskell) helped a bit :-)

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

So which one did you get wrong? I decided that one of the serial killers near the end was a language inventor, but with these computery types you can never tell.

So, gosh, do you know some Haskell then?

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

I thought John Christie was a language inventor.

I've heard people say I know some Haskell, so I guess it must be true.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

So do you think anyones ever tried combining the two. Y'know, being a computery person and assassinating people?

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

Naah, it'd never catch on. Computery people are far too sensible for that.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it's the quiet, sensible ones you've got to watch out for.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I've always had my suspicions about Niklaus Wirth.

[hsenag.livejournal.com]

Following up to myself so as not to be spreading misinformation:

Phil Wadler is the designer of Haskell that was featured in the quiz. There are many other designers too, they just weren't in the quiz.

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

I got 8/10...