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Pope Francis encourages more children to code, especially in Catholic countries
- mydriasis 3y agoA Catholic hacker army? Could there be a digital crusade?
- mortallywounded 3y agoThey congregate at TempleOS.
- fishnchips 3y agoDeus vult! Jokes aside, coming from a very Catholic country (Poland) I think nobody really cares what the Pope thinks or says about coding.
- liotier 3y agoYou are right about the waning influence of Richard Stallman.
- cuttysnark 3y agoAh, the ol' papal endorsement—that'll encourage the kids! /s
- RyanAdamas 3y agogod help us when it starts to
- krger 3y agoThat’s rather what they have in mind, yes.
- jacknews 3y agomeh, while Python is the modern Basic and general all-round utility, it's not IMHO a very good first language, with quite extensive (and sometimes messy) syntax, not to mention the glaring mistake (again very IMHO) of significant-whitespace. Scratch, and other block codes are a good first contact, but for text languages, I think something like Lua is a much simpler, and therefore better introduction. And it's great for games (love2d, pico8/tic80, roblox, etc), which is what can really motivate kids.
- thefz 3y agoWatching the morning news in Italy is a deluge of papal updates. Every day the guy says something or condemns something or endorses something. So no wonder he ended up talking of this, I guess the list of arguments was getting short. I don't think he even knows what he is talking about as his speeches usually are ghost-written.
- shipscode 3y agoIf the JS community keeps up the current vibes plenty of engineers will come to Jesus on their own. Lots of Pharisee and Sadducee energy out there on twitter & stackoverflow. If you read the Gospel of Mark and read up on how Jesus bopped the thought leaders in his community at the time you’ll see lots of parallels.
- CSSer 3y agoDoes that make GitHub the holy temple where the merchants hawk their wares?
- francisofascii 3y agoI will tear down this app and rebuild it in 3 days.
- CSSer 3y agoIf your username is a reference to St. Francis of Assisi, I love it.
- pylua 3y agoI wonder if teaching kids the law is a better investment. Many people including myself seem naive to the way the legal system really works. I guess there are already enough lawyers, but at the same time lawyers are very expensive.
- b20000 3y agoexactly…. i think this would be way better but as you say there is the problem that lawyers do not compete on price and know their value and there are systems in place that keep you from undercutting. this is what we need in our industry too.
- djbusby 3y agoOr financial literacy. Too many folk don't understand compounding interest (and more!)
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoLaw feels like such an earthly affair, bound up in so many earthly concern, so far from the spirit of God's image. With code, the will is free. We are exultant & great, individually, as we code.
- b20000 3y agowhat will getting more children to program achieve? create an oversupply of programmers and computer scientists leading to a race to the bottom?
- actionfromafar 3y agoGod forbid people will know the language of the software eating the world?
- lallysingh 3y agoMore than anything, interact better with AI. LLMs make the basic interaction better, but the computers still need to be spoonfed conditionals and command order.
- 7373737373 3y agoMore people being able to express themselves creatively? New programming languages, companies, new ideas, more decentralization? Science and technology are far from being completely explored, many problems far from automated.
- b20000 3y agoso what are you going to tell these kids? that they are guaranteed a well paying job if they learn all this shit? as long as they know it is just for creative expression and they WANT to do it that’s cool. but i am afraid the motives are different.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoDon't think "person who has a job doing programming". Think "person who has random menial tasks in their job or life, and wants to automate them". Not everyone needs to be able to implement an arbitrary program. Everyone ought to be able to write a five-line script to make their life easier and save themselves some time.
- JCharante 3y agoKnowing how to use power tools doesn’t mean you’re going to start building barns and start a workshop doing SFX for movies. There’s tons of people who code who don’t consider themselves a programmer because they work in an adjacent field (think of R or matlab).
- shamano 3y agoWhat should they code with? [HolyC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS)?
- touisteur 3y agoMaybe Pope Francis is trying to troll Dan Simmons in writing a followup to the Hyperion saga.
- nova22033 3y agoWould jquery programmers be opus dei of the programming world?
- zogrodea 3y agoSQLite adopted The Rule of St. Benedict as their code of conduct relatedly which I think is nice (although the project's history with use in military is really not to my liking). So some coders do express overt Catholicism in their career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict
- lawgimenez 3y agoWhy is the BBC only one reporting this.
- ravenstine 3y agoHopefully he declares OOP as unholy.
- jackcosgrove 3y ago*anathema
- riffic 3y agowhat is a "Catholic country"?
- ksaj 3y agoCompare, say Saudi Arabia to say, Italy. See if you can tell the difference.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y agoPope is also in on the push to increase the supplies of coders so as to suppress wages. Et tu pope?
- mortallywounded 3y agoI'm holding out for HolyC++
- lsllc 3y agoThe question on my mind is what does the vatican endorse for an editor: vi or emacs?