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lioeters | 1 day ago

> religion like behaviours

That phrasing makes me imagine a cultural anthropologist studying the behavior of programmers in the wild, their tool use, rituals, magical worldviews like object-orientation. There's that classic paper about how a language is a "tool for thinking", that it both expands and limits how and what a person can think. It makes sense that it shares characteristics with religion, a conceptual system of interfacing with the world.

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mold_aid|14 hours ago

>That phrasing makes me imagine a cultural anthropologist studying the behavior of programmers in the wild

Google scholar is your friend here