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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.
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.
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.
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
They fucking type it
I still have some handwritten code sheets (the sheets were pre-printed with a column for the memory addresses, a column for the mnemonics (i.e. assembly language), a column for the hex code and a column for the remarks) from the 1970s.
During summer holidays, I used to write the code during the afternoon/evening, assemble it by hand during the night, and type it in a hex editor in the morning.
Fuck religion. /End
Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's been opened.
There's this one: http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
Yes, Latin. The Church has been programming people with it for two millennia.
Ezekiel 23:20
... vi or emacs?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Have gnu, will travel.
Just run emacs in vi emulation mode. Everybody's happy?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Are there any programming languages in Latin?
Yes. Perl has a module for that.
During summer holidays, I used to write the code during the afternoon/evening, assemble it by hand during the night, and type it in a hex editor in the morning.
Sounds delightful, I assume you vacationed alone?
Ken
No, since the Pope is not a journalist, telling him to "Learn to Code" is not a hate crime, only Journalists - the folks that were quick to dole out that sage advice to non-journalists when they lost their jobs - are protected form that most insidious form of hate speech.
Ken
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...
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.
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?
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.
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."
What's with all the pedo jokes? I was expecting to see something more like ...
while answer is None:
print "God did it."
When I go on holiday with friends I always find time to be alone.
Not everybody is extrovert.
int main(void) {
printf("Hello afterworld!");
}
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
That reminds me of my college days. They still used PL/I as the main language for classes, and then I started learning Pascal. Trust me, it's a serious mindfuck trying to use both of those at the same time.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
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.