The pervert's guide to computer programming languages (2017) [video]

Post by DonHopkins » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 8:25 AM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #85

jandrese wrote: post #30

So according to this video these psychoanalysts completely redefined a good number of emotionally charged terms when developing their theories? Or did people hear the words and redefine them later? The wanton disregard for existing structures really bugs me, perhaps more than it should. It's seemingly intentionally misleading, like they're afraid other people will find their conclusions too simplistic so they intenti…

Google n-grams has "sexual perversion," "neurosis" and "psychosis" all picking up between 1860 and 1900, i.e. as psychoanalysis was picking up steam. Most likely they got there first. Interestingly, the frequency of "perversion" was steady through that period, so in this case the psychoanalysts did attach a new meaning to an existing word ("the alteration of something from its original course").

Post by unixhero » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 8:44 AM UTC

Der_Einzige wrote: post #44

DonHopkins wrote: post #40

Here's something a friend of mine wrote about one of Žižek's movies: >I don’t usually recommend movies, but I really got a lot out “The perverts guide to ideology“ >Essentially it’s a well presented theory that any particular ideology is a sum of components that can be combined to create a complete undeniable way of living. Nationalism, ethnicity, religion, atheism, capitalism, socialism (and many others) are all com…

I was about to make the comment about the Zizek connection but you beat me to it! Fun fact, Zizek came in a very close 4th place for President of Solvenia in 1990. I was shocked that he almost became a legitimate president back in the day.

Post by DonHopkins » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 9:18 AM UTC

wwatson wrote: post #102

rhizome31 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why Erlang is in the sadist category, along with Perl and Regexp, since it's one of the most readable language I've encountered. I get the fetishist part as it emphasizes a specific paradigm but sadist seems unfair. It might be because the syntax is slightly unusual but it's in fact quite simple.

The sadist (causing anxiety to the other in order to get the other to announce the rules) wants the other to admit their impotence (in the way that the other develops software). The erlang community wants the other to admit that they can't develop software that has nine nines of availability.

Post by xzel » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 9:57 AM UTC

vesche wrote: post #12

From the video... Psychopath Languages: Javascript, PHP, VBA, and SQL Masochist Languages: C, Assembly, Ada, Brainfuck, and Factor Sadist Languages: Perl, Clojure, Erlang, and Regex Fetishistic Languages: Erlang, Smalltalk, Elixir, and Factor Obsessional Languages: Java, C++, Haskell, Scala, Go Hysterical Languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Prolog, Elixir, and Matlib Depression Languages: COBOL Melancholy Languages: Lisp, S…

Post by giantDinosaur » Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 10:42 AM UTC

lidHanteyk wrote: post #78

caramelsuit wrote: post #76

Critical theory is a communicable memetic mental disorder.

Yeah, but so is nearly everything else. Money, sexuality and gender, architectural designs, military tradition, the list goes on without end. Nearly our entire society is a communicable memecomplex, and additionally, nearly every meme is logically incoherent, or at least logically unfounded. By the very implied claim that you make that mental disorders exist, you also imply that there is such a thing as ordered menta…