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"Java was the first strongly-typed language..."
What? :) This is so not true. I am not sure which language would be called the first strongly-typed one, but aside the fact that we can compare "strengths" of type systems, surely one mustn't overlook Pascal nor indeed Modula-2, which came to be almost two decades before Java and was as stringent in type checking (everything had to be explicitly cast save for certain obviously compatible types, and then only in one direction: adding BYTE to CARDINAL for ex.) as they come.
You know a little more about philosophers than I do, but hell's bells, learn some language history before you spout off. Just because a language was successful doesn't mean it was first.
However, thanks for the laughs! :)
Algol is divided into three parts
What about meta-programming : grammar, metamodels, DTD, schema ?
It is indeed an intriguing subject.
Please be merciful: it is impossible to cover all languages or philosophies, and be 100% correct at the same time.
Thank you guys for your comments. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel_(programming...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel_%28programmi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goedel_(programmin...)
As a side note, where would you put Hegel and Heidegger in ?
Regards,
- erob
anyway, maybe I'm the only one here that considers the post utter crap. sorry, have fun
I'm glad to see your article. I already saw some of these connections myself. I got really interested in philosphy, years after I learned how to design a relational databases and did some OO programming.
I noticed that the way you put stuff into a relational database or describe objects (is-a, has-a, can-a) is what Imannuel Kant brought us. Thank you Kant! People read his work, thought about it, wrote about it, other people read that, thought about it, perhaps read Kant themselves, talked about it... and then centuries later all this Kant thinking made its way into our culture and someone creates a programming language or rdbms...
It all makes sense! Who I am is what I think, what I feel, what I do, and in that order. Psychology teaches us that we're Thought->Feeling->Action. It has been proven time and time again. It's only logical that the great thinkers of times have contributed so much to our cultural evolution. Culture is an evolution of ideas!
Thanks for your article...!
Or to summarize: No zen to be found in this article.
To the author: respect for the effort involved but this doesn't cut it. Maybe think about it more and issue a second draft?
To myself: could I do any better? It would be fun to try but I don't feel like I could do this justice anytime before my 40th birthday.
So a primary substance is a container instance!
I agree on Socrates and Aristotle. Plato should be Algol or Cobol. Kant should at best be associated with BrainF*ck, or some other useless nonsensical irrational joke of a programming language. Even that would be a greater honor than he deserves!
Python should in fact be associated with the very opposite philosophy, and the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century: Ayn Rand. Python is clearly something Howard Roark would design: clean, rational, and brilliant.
BUT:
"Christianism" -> Christianity
"there is more than one way to do it" does not acronym as "TIMTOADY", but as "TIMTOWTDI"
"triumphly" -> triumphantly
"deducts" -> deduces
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Philosophy To Mathematics To Programming.
Otherwise article is interesting & fun.