[hackerspaces] It's now figured out. Yes it is.

[Matt Joyce]

As the good pastor has said in PoC || GTFO 0x02 Chapter 3 in Coloring
Addendum 1

*Pastor Laphroaig tells us that when the streams of our computation are
unclear, it’s often because the SEO Experts are enjoying their goats
upstream.*

In this we can find truth.  And we must remember to respond as the good
pastor did in Addendum 2

*Pastor Laphroaig says to the SEO Experts, “Not with my flock!”*

-Matt

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 8/2/17, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
> > Verily young Dynamite,
>
> Love.
>
> >  As the pastor has told us in PoC || GTFO 0x01 Chapter 7 Section 1
>
> > *Indulging in some of The Pastor’s Finest, I proclaim to my congregation
> > that there is divinity in every programming language.*
>
> Yes!  Might I indulge the crowd in an age-old discussion of
> programming language superiority?  This is not your grandfather's
> argument of PERL vs. Python.  No, I mean to shout it that there exists
> now a method to measure the *righteousness* of a language, not merely
> for the binary of saved vs not saved, but for the good peoples who may
> need guidance among the hundreds of paths.
>
> If you're Good Book doth allow it, I have presented the concept of
> Kolmogorov Complexity at the wikiwikiweb (may it be righteous).
> Therein, it is given a MEASURABLE quotient for finding the divinity
> witihin the language.
>
> > Let us apply the good neighbors words on language to the diversity we see
> > in our daily lives.
> >
> > As the pastor as also said further in that same epistole PoC || GTFO 0x01
> > Chapter 7 Section 3 Verses 1-7
> >
> > *“But,” they ask, “if there is divinity in all languages, where is the
> > divinity in BASIC? Surely we can mock that hellish language. Its line
> > numbers are ugly, and the gods themselves laugh at how it looks like
> > spaghetti.” *
>
> If we must trouble ourselves with BASIC, then let us group languages
> into two camps:  tutorials of programming and languages for mastery.
> If there be a language which does have both, then surely it must be of
> the devil or of GOD.
>
> > *Pouring myself another, I proclaim, “The gods do enjoy a good laugh, but
> > not at the expense of BASIC! While PHP is aimed at college brogrammers,
> > BASIC is aimed at children. *
>
> PHP.  Yes, indeed, the Facebook menace.  Amen.
>
> > *Now let’s think this through carefully, without jumping to premature
> > conclusions. “BASIC provides a learning curve like a cardboard box, in
> that
> > when trapped insider a clever child will quickly learn to break out. In
> the
> > first chapter of a BASIC book, you will find the standard Hello World.*
> >
> > If we can find value in the programming BASIC so too can we find value in
> > all hackerspaces.  In all of our many spaces we can see fault and
> > derision.  But we also see shared values akin to that most fundamental of
> > hello world.
> >
> > As the Pastor continues no more than 5 verses later:
> >
> > *A student then asks, “But the code is so disorganized! Professor
> Dijkstra
> > says that all code should be properly organized, that GOTO is harmful and
> > that BASIC corrupts the youth.”*
> >
> > *Pouring myself another, I say “Dijkstra’s advice goes well enough if you
> > wish to program software. It is true that BASIC is a horrid language for
> > writing complex software, but consider again the educational value in
> > spaghetti code.*
> >
> > See here the Pastor asking of us the difficult.  The capacity to find the
> > compassion to put aside your valid complaints and pursue in the imperfect
> > design of BASIC it's fundamental values.  Much the same.  I ask you
> > neighbor dynamite to put aside your many vexations and see the value in
> the
> > spaces around you.
> > [...]
> > Neighbor, I ask only of you that you hear the good word of the Pastor and
> > POC in your own life.
>
> Indeed, good man/woman(?), it shall be meditated upon.
>
> \0xD
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