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

[\0xDynamite]

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