I saw Terminator Salvation recently. Observers enjoy dissecting the many ways that the entire Terminator franchise fails to add up, logically. I’m certainly not here to defend it.

When facing scary-looking creatures like spiders, loud dogs, and humanoid robots, it helps to remember that they’re probably more afraid of you than you are of them. Probably.

However, none of the reviews or analyses I have read so far have mentioned the opening credit sequence for Salvation. Every actor’s name is ensconsed in some nonsensical computer code construct. The average programmer finds himself unable to avoid guessing what language the movie could have been hinting at– C, C++, Objective-C, XML, Python. They looked something like this:

/**Christian Bale;

>> Sam Worthington <
>

[ Helena Bonham Carter ]

Moon Bloodgood++

<Anton> <Yelchin>

I’m surprised that this hasn’t merited a mention in IMDb’s Crazy Credits section for the movie. Maybe Skynet (the master computer of the Terminator franchise) uses a proprietary language which is a mish-mash of all the computer languages the humans developed.