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Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by IsaacSchlueter »

incomethax wrote: post #8

What does that make javascript then?

Javascript would be some kind of new-agey pop religion.

It looks at first like Christianity or Judaism, but it somehow brings in funky zen concepts like lambdas and prototype chains. No one really took it seriously, then one day, it was just everywhere. No two implementations are quite the same, and most people do it horribly.

Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

IsaacSchlueter wrote: post #52
incomethax wrote: post #8

What does that make javascript then?

Javascript would be some kind of new-agey pop religion. It looks at first like Christianity or Judaism, but it somehow brings in funky zen concepts like lambdas and prototype chains. No one really took it seriously, then one day, it was just everywhere . No two implementations are quite the same, and most people do it horribly.

So, Astrology?

Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by mynameishere »

Retric wrote: post #34
mynameishere wrote: post #23

Dumb 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.

  int a; //This is a number
  char b; //This is a char.
  void * c; //This is a pointer.
  x=*((int*)a); //This is a void pointer cast to a number.

Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by run4yourlives »

jrockway wrote: post #25
cabalamat wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fear you underestimate the number of people who dislike Perl.

Yeah, Perl sucks. Instead of making me rewrite libraries, I have to actually work on the problem I want to solve, 'cause the libraries already work. I hate being productive!!1!

Using the words PERL and productive without a not qualifier in the same sentence opens up some sort of alternate universe time warp that is so dangerous it should be avoided at all costs.

Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by rsheridan6 »

kylec wrote: post #48
rsheridan6 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a slightly different take on it: Scheme as Zen, and CL as Tibetan Buddhism, which has added deities and other more complicated theology back into Buddhism, sort of like the complexity of CL.

And Arc would be Zn Bdsm: basically the same as Zen Buddhism, only more terse.

>Bdsm

And a little perverse.

Re: If programming languages were religions

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Post by dhimes »

I've read many analyses of languages: their pros and cons, how much better I would think if I used them, how much more efficient I would be if I used them, how much cooler I would be if I used them.

But nothing was enough to convince to change. Until this. Fundamentalist Christianity. Well, goddamn.

How can I distribute desktop apps in Lisp? :)

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