akovalenko on Nostr: When people say, "I'm not religious about something" (like programming languages, or ...

When people say, "I'm not religious about something" (like programming languages, or text editors containing programming languages, which every worthy editor does), they really mean "I'm not philosophical about something", which really means that they are slaves to some defunct philosophy, usually that of pragmatism. They willfully disable the part of their brain which can think "here is Truth and Beauty", "here is Lie and Ugliness", "I won't do this because it's a sin", etc..

This thing seems to fly, that project seems to work, is an initial phase of pragmatism, which is at least, hmm, practical and kinda gets you somewhere. The next thing is socially-guided pragmatism, like here are people and resources and money, and there are none, that thing is cool, and that is unpopular so I don't use it. Boring and dumb, and tends to disable the rest of the brain.

I'm deeply religious about programming languages (though I tend to be more super-ecumenical in languages than I am in religion itself, even within Christianity). Preachers and zealots can teach you many useful things that people who are "just filling their toolbox" can't even start thinking about, because they have disabled half of their brain.