obsession over the true names of things

Why do programmers fall into this trap?

They should be some of the most aware that renaming a var doesnt change the program

(define car cdr)

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whenever i have to name anything i just go a, b, c... and so on for functions, variables, macros you name it then when i run out of those it's aa, ab, ac... yep can't go wrong

It's a pain to work in programs with meaningless variable names though. You'd know this if you weren't an apper who barely knows Javascript.

Because programmers conjure the spirits of computers with their spells.
The power of a spell is in Logos, in the Word. Words have power. The masters of programming can turn invisible or stop hearts of lesser men with just one carefully chosen Word of Power.

>>6
none of that is true though

and you'd know this if you ever programmed

>>7
I laugh at you for your insolence, novice conjurer.

Naming is a clue to the object's meaning. For example, `i` for a for-loop variable, or `dst` for a buffer that's written to where a read-only buffer is called `src`.

There's no trap there, only potential for wank when you've got nothing better to do. Poor naming can be made better once it's known why it's poor, and what a better one would be.

Because they are autistic little shits that are not nearly smart ad they think they are. There are no names in nature. Superimposing names on things is human folly.

>>10
In Nature? Well in Nature you get ticks that infect you with encephalitis and worms that spread their eggs everywhere then parasitize your body, and there is no perfume and no showers so everyone is dirty and smelly, and there are no dentists and tooth treatment has to be done without anesthesia, and women have to be pregnant all the time because mortality rates are sky-high.

So you and your nature can go suck a giant biological dick, stupid mysoginists. The human civilization is the best thing that has happened to nature, and everything humans do is parsecs wiser than nature.
Humans

>>11
Human's are still part of nature, dumbass.

>>11

This kid is so funny.

>>12
I know, idiot. It is >>10 who contrasted the enlightened human practice of putting names on things with nature. I was talking within his premises, of course.

>>14

So you were just prentending to be stupid?

>>15
In the

mysoginist

and

everything humans do is parsecs wiser than nature

parts, yeah. But other than that, it's mostly how I feel. Idiots who believe that anything in "nature" is always wiser than "human folly" really crack me up. Nature is eat-or-be-eaten, nothing more, it's not wise, it's not intelligent, and without human inventions, industries and culture life would be even more shit than it is now.

>>11,14,16
This is why you will never achieve Satori.

>>17
I don't like anime, so that's allright.

>>17
Who needs Satori when there's CHIM?

>>16
Humans didn't invent anything. They discovered what already existed.

>>12
If ``everything is natural'' then the term ``natural'' has no real meaning. Man is natural. Man-made things are not natural. Stop changing the meaning of words to sound romantic.

obsession over the dubs names of things

>>21
You're right, it is a meanless concept.

>>23
That's nice.

Someone get this idiot >>20 to a school.

Our mind is the key.
The human ability to experience thoughts and emotions not synchronized with sensory perception is what makes us so inquiring in classifying things.
We can manage to create mental pictures, sounds, tastes, emotions, and a lot else and visualize, play and feel them, even though they do not exist in reality.
Our modern lives, culture, art, science are the realization of our ancestor's dreams. They just pictured a different reality, imagining how would it be if we could live comfortably in elaborated and safe homes, using all sorts of automatons and machinery, dedicating time to what they would like to do. They wanted to experience this reality, but few were those who did the first step, who convinced others, inspired them, built something to show them how life could be.
So people stopped living just as short-lived biological systems guided for survival and procreation. One guy dreamed of being a divinity, and then was born the first King. Another wished for power, and then the first Emperor. Some wanted knowledge, so the first Philosophers, the basis to our western thinking.
It is just delightful to realize our work and academia colleagues today are the same sorts of Engineers, Physicists, Sociologists, Politics and other minds that made something like the Large Hadron Collider - something so expensive, complex, precise... to both satisfy our curiosity, elucidate the Nature all around us, and give us power to change our lives into our dreams of future lives.
This is the way it is. There are people who perceive, like and enjoy the feeling from exploring our mental abilities, like having a enlightening conversation, a good reading, a touching movie, the artistic beauty of the emotions experienced by others behind their smiles, words and actions.
This is why I try to hang out with people with the same values, ideals and dreams, so we can make our dreams true together.
What are your dreams, /prog/?

After reading what I wrote, I think about stop doing drugs and focus on my actual work.

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