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I watched https://youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0 a few months ago, I believe he lays out his interpretation in it. Afte
by Jach 9y ago
I watched https://youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=PfH8IG7Awk0 a few months ago, I believe he lays out his interpretation in it. Afterwards I was inspired to go reread one of my favorite programming language essays, Perl the first postmodern computer language: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
It's still great to read but rereading I noticed at the core the same oppression narrative that seems to appear out of all postmodern discourse at some point and which JBP associates with Marxism. Here the programmer is oppressed by stuck up programming languages, Perl reverses the roles and is happy to be like a butler/slave. Which is fine for a programming language, but offers problems when reversing the oppressor/oppressed roles is the only solution you can think of, the only interpretation you wish to dwell on however flimsy the interpretation is (which seems to be where postmodernism went wrong / taken over by Marxists), and each side involves real people.