Listen up dorks

The difference between an analog and a digital piece of information is that the analog one contains an infinite set of value while the digital one contains a finite set of value.

What makes you think things in the natural world are all infinitely divisible?

install BSD/Gentoo

Why are all programming languages inadequate shit with weak abstractions and ineffective limitations?

>>4
Learn and I mean really learn (read at least three books on, write at least half a dozen non trivial programs, get to know other programmers, all the libraries etc.) Lisp (Common Lisp, Racket, Mathematica), Smalltalk, Forth, J and Prolog.

>>4
Forgot to add: the most important part is that you don't, DON'T distract yourself from the learning you're doing by participating in any programming-related discussions, here or on other sites. Best just forget that /prog/ exists and don't come back until you've done all that.

The reason for that is not only that you don't want to waste time, but also because mastering those languages is like re-breaking a badly healed fracture, you have to unlearn much before you learn, and interfering with the process is as bad as stressing your freshly re-broken fracture.

Good luck and godspeed, see you in five years!

Sometimes when I wake at night I feel that nothing on Earth could ever hurt me

>>7
Welcome to the Gaytrix. We have all the leather, rabbits and acne scars anyone could want down here. Plus phone boxes. Enjoy.

>>5
All those languages are bad because they don't have modularity. Modularity is key to programming in the large. I've had experiences with CL and Racket, but now am learning SML, thank you.

>>5
I mean that they're weaker than SML, which itself is far from perfect. Except, perhaps, J and Prolog, but that's because they're not general-purpose PLs anyway.

>>1
define "infinite"

>>8
Plus phone boxes.
Actually, Phone Booths in "Matrix" are a reference to "Doctor Who" - a movie Wachowskis seen as kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_HBOs1p5Q

>>12
"Reviewers have commented on similarities between The Matrix and other late-1990s films such as Strange Days, Dark City, and The Truman Show.[12][34][35] Comparisons have also been made to Grant Morrison's comic series The Invisibles; Morrison believes that the Wachowski brothers essentially plagiarized his work to create the film.[36] In addition, the similarity of the film's central concept to a device in the long running series Doctor Who has also been noted. As in the film, the Matrix of that series (introduced in the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin) is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, allowing users to see representations of the real world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality.[37]"

>>13
Plato holds copyright on the "The Allegory of the Cave"

Integers could be infinitely precise analogue values though..?

If possibilities are infinite, and god is a possibility..
Then chances are there is more than one god? =)

If life is miraculous, why do so many people insist of giving life a bad name? ^^

*insist on