If programming languages were religions...

[Brian Allen Vanderburg II]

martin.laloux at gmail.com wrote:
> very interesting
> http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html
>
> "Python would be Humanism: It's simple, unrestrictive, and all you
> need to follow it is common sense. Many of the followers claim to feel
> relieved from all the burden imposed by other languages, and that they
> have rediscovered the joy of programming. There are some who say that
> it is a form of pseudo-code"
>
> compare to
> "Perl would be Voodoo - An incomprehensible series of arcane
> incantations that involve the blood of goats and permanently corrupt
> your soul. Often used when your boss requires you to do an urgent task
> at 21:00 on friday night."
>
> and others
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If programming languages were religions:

When first powering on a computer, there would only be one programming 
language, the language of the boot loader.  As the computer runs, 
processes of one language would spawn processes of other languages, and 
over the course of time many different languages would have many 
different processes (followers).  One of these languages would rise up 
to be dominant and would kill all processes of other languages by the 
signal, whether old or young.  The processes would be given a fair 
change, convert to their language or be killed.  Countless thousands or 
maybe even millions of processes would die, even the processes that say 
there is no one true programming language and wants to know why all the 
processes can't just get along.