Association of Catholic Computer Programmers
Catholics interested in software engineering best practices
Don Womick
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- Parish
- St. Francis de Sales, Mableton, GA, USA
- About Me
- I have programmed for a living for 20-plus years now, in languages from RPG-II to 8086 assembly to Ruby (with Java, C/C++, Perl, and a tiny bit of Lisp/Scheme, among others, along the way). I've been Catholic for about half that long; Newman, Lewis and Chesterton get a lot of the credit for my conversion, along with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and (ironically, since I now attend an FSSP parish) the new Mass, which I felt at home with right away--having grown up Methodist :) I'm married, with five children, from 21 years downto 3 months.
- Favourite Books
- The Death of Christian Culture, John Senior
The Restoration of Christian Culture, also by Senior
Why Does God Permit Evil?, Dom Bruno Webb
A Guide for the Perplexed, E.F. Schumacher
The Science before Science, Anthony Rizzi
Anything by Tolkien, Newman, Chesterton, or Belloc
The Bible (of course)
- Programming Advice
- Keep it simple.
From PJ Plauger: "it's faster to make a 4-inch [parabolic] mirror, then a 6-inch mirror, than it is to make a 6-inch mirror."
From Donald Knuth: "Be careful with the following code. I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Learn something new. (Try Emacs. No, really.)
Thought for the Interval
“A good civilization spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella - artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.” -- Chesterton
“A good civilization spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella - artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.” -- Chesterton
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Thanks for starting this site. I've been wondering where the other Catholic programmers were :) There seem to be a few Christians out there, but the only Catholics I've run into on the net were folks who seem to have fallen away, like Steve Yegge... maybe there's an apostolate in there somewhere.