= The correlation between software engineers and Buddhism
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= A correlation between software engineers and Buddhism
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<Ciro Santilli> believes that there is a positive correlation between being a <software engineer>[software engineer] and liking <Buddhist>-like things.
Maybe it is linked to minimalism and <DRY>, which software engineers value so greatly.
Even Ciro had to try an unoriginal Buddhist joke intro in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/572897/how-does-javascript-prototype-work/23877420\#23877420[one of this Stack Overflow answers].
Ciro also feels that his https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/tree/e1d0a2fafbb35c9e65c1a8a0b6d46df3e9161461/userland["minimal reproducible example" scientific language/concept learning method obsession] of breaking things into tiny sub-problems has a strong link with <Koans>.
Some notable Buddhism/programmer examples:
* http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ "The Unix Koans of Master Foo - Rootless Root (无根的根)" by the legendary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond[Eric Steven Raymond] is notable
* http://thecodelesscode.com/ "The Codeless Code" by anonymous Qi.
* http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
* https://wiki.c2.com/?MysticalProgrammingKoans
* http://rubykoans.com/[] even <evil> programming languages adopt them!
* <The Zen of Python>
Another thing that points the correlation out is the existence of https://wattsalan.github.io/ on a `github.io` about <Alan Watts>.