Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 30/09/2024 16:36, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

   I dunno about Computer launguages but religions survive due to various factors. The Christian religion in Europe survived because its
converts were willing to murder adherents of other religions.

Not really.
That is of course a story made up by the other religions who strove to murder christians.
All belief systems strive to 'cancel' other belief systems.
Look at today's 'religion' of woke liberalism.  Or climate change.  If your beliefs differ, you are out of a career and possibly in court
I agree it isn't quite as blatant as the Islamic 'cheat steal from and finally torture rape and kill the kuffir, especially the Jewish ones' .
But give it time.
The problem is that on their wown, belief systems are quite good in promoting a feeling of shared values. The problem is when 'diversity' brings one set of shared values in direct conflict with another set of shared values . Or in conflict with reality.
If I drive on the Left and you drive on the Right, one of us will have to give way...or neither of us will live to say 'how right we were.'
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I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.
Sir Roger Scruton