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82-Year-Old Pope Francis Is 'First Pope To Write a Line of Code' (geekwire.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: After seeing to it that UK Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all received (widely-publicized) coding lessons, Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi noted in late 2016 that he was "still working on Pope Francis." GeekWire reports that Partovi was able to cross that one off his bucket list Thursday, as he helped Pope Francis become 'the first Pope to write a line of code' at a 'Programming for Peace' event organized by the Pope's foundation, Scholas Occurrentes, in Vatican City (not ready for Twitch.TV video).
"In the 21st century, computer science is a fundamental subject that all students should learn," said Partovi, whose tech-bankrolled nonprofit has entered a partnership with Scholas to introduce children to computer science. "Schools should teach computer science to prepare students for the future, empower children with creativity and teach how to harness technology and creativity." The Pontiff's programming lesson comes a month after Partovi's next-door neighbor, Microsoft President and Code.org Board member Brad Smith, had a sit-down with the Pope to discuss the ethical use of AI and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations.
"In the 21st century, computer science is a fundamental subject that all students should learn," said Partovi, whose tech-bankrolled nonprofit has entered a partnership with Scholas to introduce children to computer science. "Schools should teach computer science to prepare students for the future, empower children with creativity and teach how to harness technology and creativity." The Pontiff's programming lesson comes a month after Partovi's next-door neighbor, Microsoft President and Code.org Board member Brad Smith, had a sit-down with the Pope to discuss the ethical use of AI and ways to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations.
According to fine journalists everywhere, the Pope learning to code is a hate crime.
I'm reporting this to the SPLC!
Given a belief in a fantasy fairy God; and the devotion of the only life he has to that, he is completely borked anyway
As the pope is infallible, therefore all of his code is perfect.
Please let him write security-related stuff and new OSes, and the happy days arrive, and stays with us, forever and ever.
some old school basic
Who cares? He's just some dude that people listen to. He has no real impact on the world. It's not like he actually knows any facts about modern life or has any power.
Does he even have any friends at his age? Geez
I bet it was an assertion (and one doomed to fail).
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
This is about having them put on a band-aid and claiming that was the action of a surgeon. Any educated person can write simple code. Does not mean anything.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
As a devout Catholic, I'm going to wait for the next release. I hear it will be out any time now.
Covering up for pervert priests, or promoting socialism.
But he's not the first Pope to shield child rapists from justice for their crimes.
Not enough to spawn a Daemon.
They fucking type it
...would have used Reverse Polish notation.
This might lead to some interesting syntax, with function names at the end of the declaration.
10 PRINT "I AM THE POPE"
20 GOTO 10
But that would be 2 lines of code...
Corporatism != Free Market
Are there any programming languages in Latin?
10 COGITO ERGO SUM
20 Romanes eunt domus*
*The John Cleese compiler might object
Fuck religion. /End
Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's been opened.
... vi or emacs?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Have gnu, will travel.
To cover his time in Cult of the Dead Cow with Beto O'Rourke! ;)
Just run emacs in vi emulation mode. Everybody's happy?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
10 PRINT "POPE FRANCIS IS GREAT"
20 GOTO 10
(It might be a little bit behind the times.)
The ethos of "coding" is one of the reasons why IT is such a mess: https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
John Doe, a 43 year old computer operator, was the first IT professional to host a mass religious service when he held up a "John 3:16" sign at a football game.
Truth can hurt, hence the markdown.
Congratulations, pope. Your "Hello World!" program is simply magnificent!
... 10 year old's cute ass?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Had that line been: printf("por la paz\n"); instead of: setScreen("por la paz"); we would have had a line of Holy C!
Perhaps there is still time. Has the Archbishop of Canterbury ever coded? As a confirmed Anglican, that would hold more sway with me anyhow! :-D
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
More people listen to him that they listen to any of the weirdos you nerds worship. As for power... You have to be thankful Popes are not into the Catholic equivalent of fatwas since a couple or so of centuries. If the Pope was ever to declare a holy war on geeks, you would be all dead or wishing you were in a couple of weeks. I'd like to see that, nerds ending up like the Cathars. How would you like a nice cup of burning at the stake?
10 PRINT"Salve Munde"
20 GOTO 10
Like for example a "Code of Conduct" for priests elaborating how to have consensual sex with underage altar servers? That is what the catholic church is all about, right?
Given a belief in a fantasy fairy God; and the devotion of the only life he has to that, he is completely borked anyway
Your opinion is your 'opinion'. Opinions and assholes, everyone's got one. ;)
Twit's former contributor, Fr. Robert Ballester, is currently a guest on This Week In Tech ( https://twit.tv/shows?shows_ac... ), Episode 711, He is a Franciscan priest who is very into tech and tech toys, and he's also very personable, He's very tech-savvy, and has served the Catholic Church as a Friar. He has been recently been serving at the Vatican, my guess is perhaps he has something to do with the Pope learning to write a line of code. https://twit.tv/people/fr-robe...
I'll wait to be impressed when I hear he's the first pope to stop priests from chestering kids...
I guess he's now done more coding than the ex-Buzzfeed writers ever have.
I don't doubt that centuries ago a Pope was doodling and wrote a line of Perl.
The Holy C
The difference between them is that it's OK to be interested in small boys' opinions.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
5/10
It's an OK troll, not the worst, but replies too much on the "nerd" insult which is so 1990's.
I liked the Cathar reference, lots of people would have had to look that up. Spoiled by the "How would you like a nice cup of.." trope, which once again has not aged well.
Need to try harder.
Perhaps he can kick on the Temple OS for a bit.
rm -rf /abuse_investigations
20 goto 10
In the 21st century, critical thinking is a fundamental subject that all students should learn so they can know how to better separate truth from FUD, spin and shameless self-promotion.
I really hope that the code he wrote turned on a light.
"Head honcho of world wide religious pedophilia ring learns to code. Indoctrinated sheep approve."
- programming the dumb 'sheep' into believing their lies with few thousand years of experience and proven 'product excellence'.
So what is with all those 'fake clickbait' titles? Correct way would be to stand in 'awe' at the greatest programmmers the world has ever seen.
What's with all the pedo jokes? I was expecting to see something more like ...
while answer is None:
print "God did it."
Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio ("pope Francis") is utterly worthless as a pope, he might as well Learn to Code.
Isn't it odd that education seems to be the one area of human endeavor, human knowledge that almost no one asks for evidence to back up claims? I doubt that coding is useful for general universal education. Where's the evidence these fanboys SHOULD have while they make these delusional claims? I'll wait. .. ... ....
select * from Parishioners where age 10
That's it! I'm going back to the bazaar...
Need we say more ?
exit 0
While the Pope does wield considerable influence, you're completely loony to think he could issue a fatwah that Catholics, in general, would obey/honor.
The Church can't even get them to not eat fish on Friday (or whatever the rule is) or forgo premarital fornication. Catholics (and many other faiths) tend to go through the routine without getting all nutty about it.