If programming languages were religions

Post by thalur » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 1:34 PM UTC

juliend2 wrote: post #3

stcredzero wrote: post #2

Actually, they are religions! Didn't you know?

Some people tend to see it as a meme. It's not THAT far from a religion. Except, i didn't see any C++ programmer kill in the name of Bjarne Stroustrup...Yet.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 4:44 PM UTC

Post by eru » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 8:02 PM UTC

MaysonL wrote: post #65

russell wrote: post #17

He left out assembly languages which are really unrelated tribal religions characterized by primitive belief systems and rites of passage such as killing a lion, hanging by your thumbs, full body tattoos, or living alone in a cave for a month. I know. I passed my trial. I am a real man.

No - assembly language is the perennial philosophy uniting the mystics of all religions.

Post by eru » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 8:08 PM UTC

Hexstream wrote: post #84

arakyd wrote: post #67

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Aha! It is a religion!

Is not playing sports a sport?

Post by eru » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 8:12 PM UTC

MrRage wrote: post #66

Retric wrote: post #34

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"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.

Ultimately everything's a number in a computer, so this is not something only in C. It's just C's low-level nature.