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Post by brendanrizzo on Sept 27, 2011 17:31:48 GMT -5
My grandmother, who grew up in an Italian community and has been Roman Catholic her whole life, says that Church kind of sucks now because they recite the prayers in English instead of Latin. Everything sounds cooler in Latin, apparently. Well you know what they say, "quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur."
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Post by The_L on Sept 27, 2011 18:17:32 GMT -5
When they had the changes for Vatican II, it had a purpose: namely, to make the Mass more accessible to those who don't speak Latin, and to make sure people actually knew what they were saying rather than repeating random syllables. This is just stupid. My inner conspiracy theorist thinks that the reason for these changes is to bring back the times when only the highly-educated elites really understood the Mass, in order to shut up the laity. Joe Ratzinger has always left a bad taste in my mouth, even when I still identified as a conservative Catholic. Back when JP2 died and there was still speculation about who the new Pope would be, there was a list published of the eligible cardinals. For the others, it listed humanitarian things that the cardinals did. For Ratzinger, the best they could say was that he was prestigious and conservative. That's IT. @wikkyd Wytch: Sola lingua bona est lingua morta.
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Sept 27, 2011 21:41:46 GMT -5
Showed this to my fellow lapsed Catholic friend. She also thinks the entire idea is stupid, especially the spirit thing.
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Post by MaybeNever on Sept 27, 2011 22:32:49 GMT -5
Showed this to my fellow lapsed Catholic friend. She also thinks the entire idea is stupid, especially the spirit thing. As a woman her opinion is invalid anyway.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Sept 28, 2011 9:23:12 GMT -5
Showed this to my fellow lapsed Catholic friend. She also thinks the entire idea is stupid, especially the spirit thing. As a woman her opinion is invalid anyway. Well, I am a man and I agree with Smurfette's friend on this. Now what, traditionalists?
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Post by N. De Plume on Sept 28, 2011 12:14:55 GMT -5
My grandmother, who grew up in an Italian community and has been Roman Catholic her whole life, says that Church kind of sucks now because they recite the prayers in English instead of Latin. Everything sounds cooler in Latin, apparently. Never really understood why parishioners would be pro-Latin. I mean, yeah, it sounds cool. But what good is it if you can’t really understand it? Sola lingua bona est lingua morta. ;D Didn’t even need to look that one up. Knew just enough roots out of high school Spanish class.
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Sept 29, 2011 1:24:49 GMT -5
Slightly-autistic!Smurfette wants everything to be exactly how it always has without changing because it's WRONG, damn it, WRONG! Slightly autistic Smurfette might have more in common with ridiculously pedantic LightHorseman than she may otherwise care to admit. Troper!Smurfette would like to redirect Lighthorseman to this elegantly-crafted link.
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Post by murdin on Sept 29, 2011 6:38:29 GMT -5
The world's most successful religious language, now with an object-oriented paradigm.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Sept 29, 2011 11:59:49 GMT -5
The world's most successful religious language, now with an object-oriented paradigm. I have no idea what you just said.
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Post by N. De Plume on Sept 29, 2011 13:03:21 GMT -5
The world's most successful religious language, now with an object-oriented paradigm. I have no idea what you just said. Oh, murdin just caught onto the computer programmer in-joke of the thread title. Certain programming languages use the notation “++” as a short-hand instruction that a given variable’s value should be increased by one. Basically, it does on a literal level to a number what I felt the changes in wording of the Penitential Rite did on a metaphorical level to the whole Catholic Guilt thing. Anyway, many of the languages that use the “++” notation belong to a language group called object-oriented languages. What that means exactly would take a fairly detailed explanation, and has little to do with the actual in-joke I just explained. So I won’t go into it here. post.submit(); postcount++; return 1;
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Post by RavynousHunter on Sept 29, 2011 15:47:35 GMT -5
Shouldn't it be "return 0;" Otherwise, you're returning an error.
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Post by The_L on Sept 29, 2011 16:01:30 GMT -5
Shouldn't it be "return 0;" Otherwise, you're returning an error. I was taught you could return whatever you wanted to return. I could return 42 and it would still be a working program
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Post by N. De Plume on Sept 29, 2011 16:09:29 GMT -5
Shouldn't it be "return 0;" Otherwise, you're returning an error. Depends on what the function result is being passed to. Me, I was just putting crap down as a joke. Guess it’s not the main function. (I had half a thought to make it a void return. But I felt that something more should be there.)
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Post by RavynousHunter on Sept 29, 2011 17:01:49 GMT -5
Shouldn't it be "return 0;" Otherwise, you're returning an error. I was taught you could return whatever you wanted to return. I could return 42 and it would still be a working program Huh...I've always read that the main() should always return 0, unless there's an error. Course, I was never formally taught the C family of languages...all that I know consists of either what I read, or learned on my own. Autodidacts of the world, UNITE!
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Post by Yla on Sept 30, 2011 11:49:14 GMT -5
The main function should return 0 unless HOLY FUCK ERROR. That has to do with the OS, though; the language doesn't care about that. In a post creation subfunction, I would use return void, and use proper error handling other than ancient error return codes. The language of your snippet is object-oriented, after all (post.submit()), and so has most likely exception objects and a try-catch syntax.
And as a fellow programmer, I have to nitpick your explanation, De Plume: the "++" notation is also used (rather, was originally used) by older, classical imperative languages. When the object-oriented paradigm came into use, several extended versions of these languages tagged exactly this "++" onto their name, which was an injoke on its own.
And we are all completely geeking out here.
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