If programming languages were religions

[catsoup23]

http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

Terribly funny, my only critique being that unlike Voodoo, Perl actually works in the hands of a capable practitioner.

And I would like to make one addition:

Unitarian Universalism is like pseudocode: it conveys the general idea of what the program should do, and it's OK if

Comments

[katrinb]

Oh, Voodoo works, too. Not necessarily by magic - but remember, it is primarily a spiritual practice. And people who are ridden by gods and spirits are affected by them as surely as people who pray to their gods in more conventional churches. It's a more complex, more powerful, and deeper tradition than most people with only a surface understanding give it credit for.
Besides, even if you're just talking about the simple "magic" stuff, a capable voodoo practitioner makes it part of his or her work to know a lot about basic psychology, and often has a solid grounding in local information networks (not computer-based, social), which might in and of itself give her an idea of some of the causes behind her patients' problems, and ways to solve them practically. And belief itself does a lot. People have died from being cursed, and been healed by voodoo cures - it may be psychological, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work.
Um. *looks around sheepishly, climbs off of ethnological soapbox*