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Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:27PM (#399795)
Yep, ASM is the one true path that directly interfaces you with the underlying messy reality, but is only truly understood by a few arcane practitioners.

Aka it's Quantum Mechanics ;)

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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:11PM (#399956)
Sorry, but designing CPU hardware is really quantum mechanics, both in your analogy and in reality.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:29PM (#399998)
No, hardware is reality, QM is still an abstract representation that seems to work if you ignore the bugs.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:35PM (#400008)
Consciousness is a bug.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:47PM (#400026)
? I meant QM not including General Relativity etc. I think this joke has been stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?
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Re:If programming languages were religions by stcredzero on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @04:28PM (#400097)
stretched way past the breaking point but what did you mean?

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/15/today-on-offworld-13.ht...

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Re:If programming languages were religions by listic on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @02:27PM (#399885)
I think ASM would be Atheism
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Re:If programming languages were religions by arakyd on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:23PM (#400555)
Aha! It is a religion!
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Re:If programming languages were religions by Hexstream on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @01:27PM (#401238)
Is not playing sports a sport?
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Re:If programming languages were religions by eru on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:08PM (#401375)
Atheism is something like a religion Perhaps agnosticism is the none-religion.
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Re:If programming languages were religions by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @08:04PM (#401666)
What about Apathy?
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Re:If programming languages were religions by eru on Thursday December 18, 2008 @07:06PM (#402799)
There's a group that practises a stronger version of Agnosticism. They say "We don't know, and it does not matter. (But it matters that it does not matter.)"
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