Update on Babel: Development has been stalled for the last couple of months due to very heavy day-job workload. I hope to resume active development by the end of the year. I have cleared a couple unanticipated hurdles in the architecture of the language and I basically have the entire thing in my head, just need to find enough keyboard time to write it all out.
Clayton -
I dont think there is a correlation. If anything, computers are pretty statist- centralized machines, everything is at a touch of a button.
However i guess it is more libertarian to use linux, than it is to use windows (but i myself use windows since i game).
But then again, programmers are intellectuals, and alot of intellectuals are socialists/leftists in some way, but then also why alot are libertarian?
Maybe libertarianism is the new intellectualism>?
What are you doing? Computers are statist? It is a machine, it does not have beliefs or goals. Using linux does not make you “more libetarian.”
Ill rephrase- They are more centralized, which could be a statist resemblance.
Dont take me too seriously about it, just wondering.
Also if we were to make an analogy- Linux you can customize however you want, but with windows you gotta follow the rules set by microsoft (which in this case would be the state).
You said not to take you too seriously, so I won’t.
Hammers are centralized striking devices, like the statist military. Therefore, hammers are statist.
Even though I’m no programmer, glad to hear it! Keep us posted!
It definitely seems like there’s a correlation, and I’ve been thinking it through trying to find an explanation…causation, if/then statements, critical thinking skills learned through debugging, but I’m starting to think the correlation is just that guys that post a lot on the internet tend to have deeper computers skills than the average user.
Well, a programmer has to think systematically and precisely. There are a lot of parallels to that kind of thinking and, say, logical and philosophical system-building.
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We should see alot of mathematicians and other kinds of scientists too.
We should see alot of mathematicians and other kinds of scientists too.
Programmers have a higher ratio of productive workers to, well, parasitic ones than scientists. I mean, of course, hired by private business vs. hired by the state. People used to getting grants because they “deserve” them are less conductive to libertarian ideas.