If Programming Languages Were Religions

bshell writes "With Christmas around the corner I know we are all thinking about religion, or at least maybe wondering why this one religion dominates the rest for these few weeks. A fellow named Rodrigo Braz Monteiro (amz) posted this list comparing each programming language to a religion. Guaranteed to make you chuckle and generate a good long thread here on slashdot. Great way to pass the time as work winds down this week and we relate to our own programming faiths during this very special time of year. Merry PHPmas." Fortunately Pastafarianism is referenced.

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Re:Shouldn't this be in "idle"?

[theaveng]

P.S.

BASIC is similar to the caveman religions - early prototypical religions about Sun gods, Thunder gods, and so forth. It's where most programmers start.

ASSEMBLY is not for the common man, but for the theologians who like to study the esoteric minutiae (was Jesus a god, a human, or both?). Assembly is for programmers who like to control the lowest level of the machine & worship the flow of the bits.

FORTRAN - like physics problems about "how high does the baseball go when thrown at 1 meter per second", Fortran is a language you learn in college but never use in the real world.