Crochet, a description.

I finally found a suitable analogy for crochet. This will eternally be used to explain why I like crochet, and what I hate about it. Most of my friends will understand this. For those that don't I still have my old fall-back: "It's like knitting with a toothbrush".

Knitting is like programming probably using like, Python or Ruby (except that you don't leave the needles in your knitting).

Crochet is like programming in whitespace. More ways than you can imagine. You can't see what you're doing, but it doesn't really matter, the best you can hope to make is a mess. Being blind is /not a handicap/ in crochet.

Weaving is like programming in C_, I guess. It takes ages to get anywhere, but what you're left with it quite pretty and functional.

Brainfuck, or possibly Java is probably akin to felting, in that you take a load of shit and whatever you end up with is entirely not your fault, as it's impossible to actually come up with an intentional result.

Macramé is HTML. You can't possibly hope to make anything more exciting, dynamic or useful than the piece of string you started with.

Sewing? You're Visual Basic/GML. It took you 30 seconds to make that dress, but people are still impressed that you did it.

Sorry, but LaTeX is getting dyecraft. Tie-dying, is like the Brain-fuck equivalent of markups. There must be one! (If there isn't, I'm going to use my extensive knowledge of C++ to complain extensively about it in forums. Ha, the only thing I know about C is that it's a figment of your imagination, impossible, and shit. And the keywords and most of the syntax.)

One day I'm going to find a language I hate enough to consider it equivalent to carving your clothes out of Rock.

Sorry, I couldn't think of an analogy for Haskell. It might be close to wearing fur though. Gotta say, I know nothing about either of them. Except the syntax and most of the keywords.