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Re: If Philosophers Were Programmers

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Re: If Philosophers Were Programmers

0x69 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:25:18 -0000

Philosophy indeed has relations to science disciplines, as for example Alchemy to Chemistry OR Astrology to Astronomy and etc. But I suggest that relation Philosophy to Programming is very weak. This is because that relation is indirect,- something like ->
Philosophy To Mathematics To Programming.
Otherwise article is interesting & fun.

Re: If Philosophers Were Programmers

Ícaro Mttpedeiros — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:28 -0000

Great post. I have translated to portuguese to show to friends:

http://kirux.wordpress.com/

;)

Re: If Philosophers Were Programmers

Fabricio — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:37:48 -0000

What about Tcl/Tk? Who would be the philosopher with ideas such as "everything is a string", graphical "hello world"s in two lines, a 12 rules syntax and you´re done?

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name — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:29:30 -0000

Quine = Lisp

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romeo.macapobre@gmail.com — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:29:35 -0000

PHP is lot like C ..

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Yeahright — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:57 -0000

Ayn Rand is a second-rate novelist and a third-rate philosopher. I give her Visual Basic---it's simplistic and idiotic, but has legions of followers who don't know any better.

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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:01:59 -0000

Dang. I see what went wrong- paste the close paren at the end of the URL

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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:03:53 -0000

Link still fails; try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Leo Horovitz — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:59:14 -0000

Ha ha! That was the best comment so far!

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hyposave — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:37:50 -0000

What no philosopher for PHP?!

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Brian Killian — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:43:51 -0000

Pascal is one of the few programming languages actually named after a philosopher. Blaise Pascal.

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Lacan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:56:22 -0000

Any French posmodernist.

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Ernst — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:30:11 -0000

C++ is certainly *not* "fully" backwards compatible with C.

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cataklysm — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:26:19 -0000

What philosopher would brainfuck be matched to?

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John — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:06:00 -0000

BRILLIANT. That one resonates with me most on this page.

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BIll — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:48:24 -0000

Ok, first off, this post is great. I was a CS & Philosophy double major in college, and I think it was just this sort of overlap between capturing ideas in code and capturing them in discourse (classes, ideals, intention vs. communication, "language of thought" and such) that really kept me going.

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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Rambo Tribble — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:09:08 -0000

Are to we forget George Boole, who is often credited as both mathematician and philosopher? Machine language, of course.

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msbpodcast — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:37:57 -0000

But Wittgenstein would be the first Smalltalk programmer

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Robert — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:51 -0000

ART, KEE, Knowledge Craft...

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deemery — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:00:14 -0000

How Politically Correct!

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Andrew — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:57:39 -0000

I'm sorry but I have to agree. I studied philosophy and now comp sci and this is a pretty superficial review of both areas that does justice to neither.

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.

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Doro — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:29:17 -0000

How about Sartre? Where does he fit in?

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Obnoxio The Clown — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:27:20 -0000

What language supports the "you start coding, I'll go find out what they want" paradigm?

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jlmccreery — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:10:49 -0000

Not sure how philosophers will react, but this is a wonderful romp.