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GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language
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Posted on 12/15/2013 8:24:55 PM PST by Utilizer
"Some clowns and jokers over at 4chan thought it would be a funny idea to put together a web page for a programming language named 'C Plus Equality' as a parody of feminism, dismissing OOP as 'objectifying' and inheritance as "a tool of the patriarchy". But this parody was apparently too hot to host at Github, which took down the original Github repository after receiving criticism on Twitter, prompting a backlash and inquiry into the role of free speech and censorship on Github's platform. The project has since found a new home on BitBucket, at least for the time being."
Comments on an article describing the research which sparked the parody call the parody's language "fake," and compare it to the 1996 Sokal affair. (It also reminds me a bit of Jesux.)
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Computers/Internet; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: censorship; programming; satire
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Amusing parody of a programming language (I think). Feminists will be outraged that most immediately have issues with this compared with a "real" programming language, lol!
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:24:55 PM PST
by
Utilizer
To: Utilizer
let me guess... one salient feature is that comparison operators depend on context and cannot be depended upon to be transitive.
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:29:15 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: Utilizer
Did the ‘?’ operator return different results depending on the time of the month? (Sorry, couldn’t resist. )
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:34:30 PM PST
by
Bob
To: Bob
It depends on getenv(”HEADACHE”)
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:39:44 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: Utilizer
It’s amusing, but someone definitely has too much free time.
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:40:56 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: HiTech RedNeck
LOL... and are mutually exclusive
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:42:12 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Utilizer
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:42:14 PM PST
by
expat1000
To: Utilizer
ROFL!
“Programs are never to be “forked”, as the word has clear misogynistic tendencies and is deeply problematic. Instead, programmers may never demand “forking”, but ask for the program to voluntarily give permission.
“Forking” will henceforth be called “consenting”, and it is entirely up to the program to decide if the consent stands valid, regardless of the progress of the system clock.”
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:45:34 PM PST
by
expat1000
To: Utilizer
Hilarious....why just the other day I was called a..."sexist" on some website.
Of course I quickly agreed that I am.
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:49:02 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Utilizer; The_Reader_David
FANTASTIC parody!! I sent a link to the BitBucket page to my 20-y.o. daughter comp-sci major and she's currently cracking up over it.
As The_Reader_David pointed out above (#5) somebody had too much free time, but at least they chose to spend it in a way which enriched the world through humor!!
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:51:15 PM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I am not certain. The logic escaped these cognitive capabilities beyond the first parse-ing...
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:51:58 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: The_Reader_David
It is even more amusing for those of us who had to study over and over again to understand the C, C+, C++, and C# language courses for all those years.
Straight logic is not readily defined in this "new" standard, it appears, which is fully in line with 'non-male' logic. (ducks!)
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:55:22 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: expat1000
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posted on
12/15/2013 8:55:57 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: HiTech RedNeck
let me guess... one salient feature is that comparison operators depend on context and cannot be depended upon to be transitive. You mean (for us Basic programmers) the results of the For/Next loop depends upon the not-necessarily-consistent values assigned to both or either For and Next, not necessarily at the same time or in an identical fashion given the application?
I am not even going to attempt to try to post that in Assembly...
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:05:02 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Utilizer
Like Billy Joel put it “she never gives in; she just changes her mind.”
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:09:11 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: Bob
Did the ? operator return different results depending on the time of the month? (Sorry, couldnt resist. ) Actually, I did not manage to piece enough of the 'logic' of the 'language' together enough to make heads or tails of it, but then again I am a male and not expected to see much more than what is right in front of Me. Perhaps it depends on what the definition of "is" is...
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:10:33 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Utilizer
Silicon and electricity are so, so chauvinistic! And it’s proven by the fact that we need the deadly poison, arsenic, to make it work! (And a somewhat less deadly poison, boron.)
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:10:48 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
It depends on getenv(HEADACHE) I think it actually depends upon callvar(maybe)...
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:12:42 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: The_Reader_David
Its amusing, but someone definitely has too much free time. *snicker* Please do not take this as a personal attack, mate, since this is only a reference, but you sound entirely too much like My ex when she decided that more honeydo's were called for.
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:15:28 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
To: Utilizer
A keeper:
"In C+=, you don't write to a file. Dictating to the poor files what sort of information they must store is Patriarchal."
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posted on
12/15/2013 9:35:21 PM PST
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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