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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2010-07-23 03:43 pm
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-07-23 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah - it does seem to be a case of "I don't like the idea that I could be written in Java, therefore I must be all quantum and stuff."

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like the idea that I could be written in Java either.

I like to imagine it'd need something like Haskell, or at least Lisp.

More realistically I worry that I am in fact made of a hideous and haphazard hash-up of horrible K&R-style C, some iffy FORTRAN IV, and a few incomprehensible bits of assembler. The evidence definitely suggests I'm not implemented on anything that effectively abstracts memory management away.

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Always thought that one was sailing close to pure blasphemy. God never used Perl for His hacking. If He did, it'd have been sh scripts (definitely no bash), a bit of sed, and if absolutely necessary a touch of awk. That's Hacking As God Intended.

[identity profile] andrewhickey.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
No Bash?! Can you really see a real deity writing scripts without tab-completion?! (Not to mention he'd want to use a Free Software solution rather than a proprietary, closed one).

Personally, though, I think the mere existence of perl is proof that God doesn't exist, or that if he does he hates me...

[identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I know some people think Richard Stallman is God, but even He would admit that he isn't. :-)

[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com 2010-07-25 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
God might use Free Software, but surely surely doesn't write it: we've not been given the source code. We're having to reverse engineer it.

apt-get install universe-src

[identity profile] andrewhickey.livejournal.com 2010-07-25 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he'd give it us if anyone asked him for it - he's just not provided it as a default, to save disk space. But of course those who ask him stuff the most (the priesthood) make too much money from providing tech support to want anyone to be able to do anything by themselves.

Re: apt-get install universe-src

[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com 2010-07-25 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
God's Will being frustrated by Downstream? Say it ain't so!
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[personal profile] zz 2010-07-23 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm now pondering what styles of code other pasta shapes would be besides spaghetti.

[identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's very funny.
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