I am _such_ a geek

I just read this Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.  It was very, very funny.

I am sadly lacking in enough other people in my life who would even understand it, let alone find it funny.

I think I got all of the jokes in it too.  Which means I've picked up far too much about programming languages I've never even touched...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-8-2009

• An illustration of just how small we are.
  (tags: astronomy Space photography)
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
  1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
  (tags: programming funny)
• The Duke Nukem Forever List
  Some of the many, many things that occurred between the announcement and final cancellation of Duke Nukem Forever.
  (tags: games funny dukenukem)

It's all about God

ciphergoth pointed me at the piece here on mandatory school prayer (still a legal requirement in the UK).

[Poll #1396727]

The train of thought presumably goes like this:
1) Children should be trained to do the morally correct thing until they are old enough to make their own decisions.
2) Praying to God is the morally right thing to do.
Therefore) Children should be trained to pray.

I can't see that lasting much longer, when the majority don't believe (2).