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- - ------- - -------------
The culture
by Trophy
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Every culture in the world has it's own language. The culture exists as long as
the language lives in the minds of the people. Look at the middle-ages when the
Latin language was the most popular in the world of science, art and religion.
Then the Francais had it's own time. And after the industrial revolution
English is the basic - except that the biggest cultural community in the world
is speaking Chinese.
Every nation has it's own language used to describe ideas and feelings. It's
hard to translate anything from one language to another without losing some of
this unique meaning.
As long as the language exists the nation is growing and the culture will get
richer and richer. It's true about all natural languages we use in everyday
life.
But what about programming languages?
The scene is also a part of culture, we should say 'global culture' of our
'global society'. Today everything is global due to the telecommunications
revolution.
The natural language of computers is binary code. We can even say that the
binary logic is suitable for describing everything in our world, even emotions
and feelings. The DNA code, the language of life - from the biological point of
view is also easy to describe using binary codes. To states can be used to tell
every story - they create a special language for any problem in the world. The
scene also has it's own language. Our 'lingua franca' is English - more or less
broken, depending on the language skills of a member of the scene. But we can
easily communicate. It doesn't mean that the scene will live as long as we talk
in English. We can even use Esperanto. The basic language of each demo-scene,
not only Atari, is assembler. As long as the coders use it and write new
productions our scene will live. It's hard when the production of Motorola
based machines, compatible with Atari is a kind of illusion today but this is
the one and only truth. There is no place for a demo-scene when people forget
assembler. And, of course the scene has it's own culture - the little part of
global culture. We're also a members of society. We will exist as long as the
assembler of Motorola's will be used by coders. They are a kind of poet of our
nation.
We can help this existence in creating libraries.
With source code and tutorials, not only to help in developing but also to have
our own place where everything from the past can still live . To share the past
and store the memories of our activity and existence.
And we should also promote Atari computers in many ways. The Fuji logo is still
a sign of good fun The expansion of our culture can help get Atari reborn. Even
if it's impossible we have to try.
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CHOSNECK team contact us:
people faithful 2 da roots! atarimsb@wp.pl
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