after all, somebody dumped some backup of his brain to use-net: > Software Needs Philosophers > by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15.
including lots of personal details. So what I basically took from it is written in this paragraph: > I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, and I renounced it when I was > thirteen years old, after my Uncle Frank (a devout terrorist Catholic > if there ever was one) told me to stop reading the Bible, that it would > “really screw a person up” to do that, that you needed someone to > interpret it for you. That wasn't the only reason I renounced it, but > it'll suffice for our purposes. Under 'best effort interpretation', one could see the whole thing in the light of the small thing: he's rescuing 'us' by telling us: - to think rational, - to de-construct our beliefs and - don't put that much personal sympathy into 'subculture group pseudoreligion', the latter is what he thinks 'computer language culture' really is today. I can't see what's wrong with these hypotheses (besides he got some terms wrong); he describes things we most probably are already aware of (in our own context of notions) - but wouldn't bother to fill the communication lines of the world with it (wouldn't give a damn about ...) (my €0.05) Mirco f'up ==> c.l.p.m -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list