Baboons that can program prefer VB.NET? Sounds absurd but since it’s on the internet it must be true.
Dr. James McAuliffe of the Stamford school of Zoology performed a series of experiments on the baboons using laptop computers. What he discovered was amazing. His findings were reported in the Journal of American Zoology this month.
“Baboons and chimpanzees can use computers, do software testing, and even program,” explained Dr. McAuliffe. But they had some problems handling simple menu navigation. “Higher primates are very intelligent, but we found that they had problems with deeply nested menus. We found that these animals had trouble with multi-way branches beyond 2 levels. At first, these primates simply could not repeat a multi-way menu navigation.”
After simple training in Windows® menu navigation, McAuliffe presented the baboons with modern development tools. Predictably, they were baffled by anything to do with modern Java IDEs such as SunONE®, Visual Age® and Jbuilder®. None of the animals understood the Java programming language, even the ‘alpha’ animals.
However, most subjects immediately understood Visual Basic 3.0, and even displayed some comprehension of the VB3 debugger and simple VB data types. Most subjects could change properties of custom controls in the Properties window, and displayed some understanding of advanced concepts such as read-only properties.
Hey Ridzuan, you should see this:
Test subjects with the best results were baboons and bonobo apes. Both primate species demonstrated stressful behaviors when presented with Java tools and utilities.
It’s okay I can get stress too, haha…
uzyn 3:03 pm on June 6, 2009 Permalink
One of the most incredible BS I’ve ever seen coming from a Dr.
ridz84 3:32 pm on June 6, 2009 Permalink
hahhaha…i like the Java tools being stressful part. hilarious…
“None of the animals understood the Java programming language, even the ‘alpha’ animals.”