Mormonism and Actionscript as religions
A friend emailed me a humorous link that was posted on slashdot about what religions would be in the programming world. I like it that Mormonism was included on the list.
C# would be Mormonism - At first glance, it's the same as Java, but at a closer look you realize that it's controlled by a single corporation (which many Java followers believe to be evil), and that many theological concepts are quite different. You suspect that it'd probably be nice, if only all the followers of Java wouldn't discriminate so much against you for following it.
But where is my other religion, Actionscript? If I were to make the same analogies to actionscript...
Actionscript would be the Church of England - Actionscripts dominant cousin, via the ECMA family , is javascript - the most commonly used language on the web and like the Catholic church has millions of adherants, of which almost none really know the language. When Macromedia needed a little more som'n som'n like Henry the VIII did, we ended up with a divergent, but very similar language.