• meticulousPotato@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Programming is a wide concept so i’ll go with the concepts i know.

    Programming languages, proglang for short, are a set of rules to direct a computer. Any process of change of the proglang itself involves the developers fixing bugs that cause hardships to the proglang user, the contradiction here is between the passive prescence of bugs in the code of the proglang and the active developers fixing this bugs, secondarily theres is the development of new feature in the code.

    The previous contradiction is the same as the one present between a programmer making functional code in a programming language

    The programming ecosistem, considering that there are people involved and thus is part of material reality, would have contradictions related to class contradictions

    Im open to corrections

  • marmulak
    310·
    2 years ago

    Well considering that dialectical materialism is nonsense, you can’t really apply it to anything, let alone programming.

    • snek_boi
      4·
      2 years ago

      I understand that applying the process of dialectics to a logical process is problematic. Dialectics can be understood as “this depends on and affects that, while that depends on and affects this”. Formal logic can be understood as “this is this. That is that. If you make this that, it no longer is that. If you make that this, it no longer is this”. Formal logic can be seen in computers with bits, either being on or off. It is hard for me to imagine bits in a dialectical manner.

      That is the critique I imagine would come from you. Am I correct in that? However, your critique goes beyond programming. Could you elaborate on how it is that dialectical materialism can’t be applied to anything?