"Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal". --J. R. Bob Dobbs

I'm a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. "Know" might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed

Ha! Just remembered the name of the novel. Hyperion by Dan Simmons. The Rabies name was Sol Weintraub, for what that's worth. OK, now I can think about something else...

My understanding of the story (in the novel, which I still can't remember the name) was that in knuckling under to the command to murder his own child, Abraham failed the test.

There is a novel, and damned if I can remember the title, where a rabi proposes that god commanding Abraham to kill his son was a test, which he (Abraham) failed.

FNORD

Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. "I think we've found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem...".

I will be very surprised if the cheeto spends a single day in jail.

More and more every day.

Maybe 'biblical literalist' might be a better term.

Self descriptive.