I recently, after 6 yrs as a Ubuntu user, relapsed back to Microsoft, and worse Apple/ AT&T for mobile service. This was necessitated by unemployment. What is the connection, per yer best gestimeate, of the relation of coding languages with long established religions? I see: apple = Protestantism, Microsoft = Christianity, C = Judaism. Ruby = Hinduism. etc. I am not a programmer, but I have a serious interest in this and would like to move back to a JAVA/ Android/ Oracle worldview but need sum support. Any thoughts?

I'd love to read why unemployment made you go back to Windows, Apple (presumably Iphone). Frankly, I'm clueless

Your question makes no sense. First of all, apple and microsoft are not coding languages but companies. I also doubt that religious aspects are taken into consideration when designing a programming language. It's a pure technical process.

PS: I asked the moderators to move this thread to 'General'.

I'd also like to know how unemployment could possibly necessitate you to move from practically costless Linux distribution to commercial Microsoft and Apple products. However, that put aside, programming languages and religions should probably not be mixed. This, is in short, because religions, by their definition rely on believing and such, whereas programming languages are very predictable (in the sense that it is not a matter of belief what the end result of the program is). But if you insist, I agree Microsoft (which is a company, not a language--thankfully) does share some aspects with Christianity: it is spread by sword (metaphor), it makes people go crazy and be angry, and despite of what they say they do, it does quite much to the contrary (e.g., "ease up your life").

By the way, doesn't Protestantism belong to "Christianity", and not exist "by its side"? And what if you incorporate code written in C into other languages, such as Perl or Python?

This thread is bound to solicit some very humorous responses.

apple = Protestantism, Microsoft = Christianity,


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So, you relegate Apple to being a subset of Microsoft?

Actually, an argument could be made that Linux should be "Christianity," descended as it is from Linus Torvald (the One) and begat from Unix (the Father) and allowing us direct relationship with our computers, without the intercession of the priestly IT classes, (with a protestant twist, other congregants help each other out).

Wonder what bluegospel will think of this thread?

It's been done.

http://blog.aegisub.org/2008/12/if-p...religions.html

Also, Apple and Microsoft are not "coding languages".

I also wonder how unemployment can force MS on someone. I always thought that it's employment that usually forces MS on people.

I have installed a breathalyzer lockout on my computer and will no longer post when past 0.2% BAC. I apologize for the garbage post to anyone who took offense.

Do you have any idea how primitive technology would be if everything was done sober?