If programming languages were religions

Re:If programming languages were religions by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:27PM (#399994)

"Judaism's texts (the bible and the Talmud) are famously convoluted, contradictory, debated, etc." that sounds like C's type system to me. Is that a char or a number? A pointer or a number? etc.

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Re:If programming languages were religions by mynameishere on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @07:09PM (#400309)

  int a; //This is a number
  char b; //This is a char.
  void * c; //This is a pointer.
  x=*((int*)a); //This is a void pointer cast to a number.

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Re:If programming languages were religions by mynameishere on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:49PM (#400573)

The [edit] link disappeared on me, or I would just correct the last 'a' to a 'c'.

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Re:If programming languages were religions by MrRage on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @10:54PM (#400534)

Ultimately everything's a number in a computer, so this is not something only in C. It's just C's low-level nature.

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Re:If programming languages were religions by eru on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:12PM (#401380)

Computers are so good at simulating numbers, they sometimes fool us into believing that they are made of the stuff.

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