his comments on C are completely unfounded. C's type coercion means you can ram all sorts of things into places they aren't supposed to go. typecasting says to me that there is nothing orthodox about C at all. if anything it is modern protestantism, a faith that lets you ram in whatever you want, but one wrong move and you go to hell (segfault)
If programming languages were religions
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Re: If programming languages were religions
#32You can convert into Judaism.
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#33Visual Basic would be Satanism - Except that you don't REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist... Dim! Yuck.
There is some truth to that statement.
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#34Dumb article. Judaism and C are about as opposite as you can get. Judaism's texts (the bible and the Talmud) are famously convoluted, contradictory, debated, etc. C is one of the cleanest languages.
"Judaism's texts (the bible and the Talmud) are famously convoluted, contradictory, debated, etc." that sounds like C's type system to me. Is that a char or a number? A pointer or a number? etc.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, ASM is the one true path that directly interfaces you with the underlying messy reality, but is only truly understood by a few arcane practitioners. Aka it's Quantum Mechanics ;)
Sorry, but designing CPU hardware is really quantum mechanics, both in your analogy and in reality.
No, hardware is reality, QM is still an abstract representation that seems to work if you ignore the bugs.
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#36"Lisp would be Zen Buddhism" & "Python would be Humanism" I feel strangely peaceful.
As soon as I saw the title, I knew Lisp would be Zen. I don't think that takes any thought -- regardless of their actual qualities, they have the same mystique.
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#38Visual Basic would be Satanism - Except that you don't REALLY need to sell your soul to be a Satanist... Dim! Yuck.
That reminds me of the one about the dyslexic devil-worshipper who sold his soul to Santa.
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As the original poster stated, please don't kill me if you are offended. Its aim was humor.
Bit of a tangent, but I never understand why people say this. Don't they know that humor is one of the most potent weapons? If someone is offended, will they be less offended that they are regarded as laughable?
(Tangent to the tangent - this reminds me a little of Jon Stewart hiding behind "But I'm only a comedian" every time someone wants to talk about the politics in his satire. I happen to like his satire a lot and have no particular objection to his politics, but this is just disingenuous.)
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, hardware is reality, QM is still an abstract representation that seems to work if you ignore the bugs.
Consciousness is a bug.
? I meant QM not including General Relativity etc. I think this joke has been stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?