Ask HN: What's a pirate's favorite programming language?

5•dieselgate•1h ago

You think it would be R, or maybe even the C... But they're always after the Perl!

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PaulHoule•1h ago

The greatest software pirate I knew wrote 6502 assembler.

Imustaskforhelp•1h ago

Offtopic but the wolf on your profile is really amazing. Do you have some resources of ascii art for such things and how/where did you find them? I really enjoyed copying the ascii art with my cursor and making it blue in some sense when selected xD

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