What religion is Delphi?

Question

I found a very funny list on a blog post: If programming languages were religions. It's funny, tongue-in-cheek, and not to be taken seriously. But they left off my language, Object Pascal. And I can't really think of a religion that fits. Anyone have any ideas?

(NOTE: This is a purely subjective question, just for humorous purposes and is not to be taken seriously. They associated my religion with a programming language I don't like in the least. It doesn't bug me. Please don't even try to answer this if stuff like that is going to offend you.)

Answer 1

OK, I got it. It is Fundamentalist Mormonism. Since it was started by the same guy that started C#.

Answer 2

Delphi is obviously Catholic. We enjoy lots of structure, and the VCL/RTL protects us from making most windows calls directly.

Answer 3

Delphi would be Catholicism. It was founded (created) by somebody who is said to have super-human (very good technical) abilities. It grew to a point where it had a lot of power and followers. Many things have changed since Delphi was founded and, somehow, it has managed to evolve and grow (Delphi for .NET), however, in the process, it has lost the consistency that characterized its earlier flavors. Due to gross mistakes in its leadership (yeah, Borland), Delphi has lost ground to newer religions like C#, dynamic laguages and, of course, the Web; but it still manages to survive and grow within its possibilities.

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Notes:

• The main difference would be that, while Jesus was killed, Hejlsberg has defected to Microsoft (haha... the evil... $$$... joking).
• I was baptized in this faith, but some years ago, after a lot of meditation, I had a revelation and converted to C++.

Answer 4

Just saw one on Reddit: Dutch Reformed Church. I like that one...maybe because that is my church.

Answer 5

High Anglican (Episcopalian)- Pascal is Catholic (as per skamradt). Object Pascal has "borrowed" stuff from other religions, but it still looks a lot like Catholicism.

Answer 6

Paganism, I suppose. After all the temple at Delphi was dedicated to Apollo.

Answer 7

Delphi is like OSHO's followership which only the rich and adopt!

If you want to adopt Delphi as religion then be ready to pay more than other programming language that also for a language that has become stagnant.

Answer 8

Ancient Greek Hellinistic of course:

It was polytheistic and polymorphic, and has largely been abandoned.

Additionally, its unshaved followers were into maths and smelled like garlic. :)

Too many similarities to be a coincidence...

Answer 9

Animism: Delphi for Win32, focused on native - unmanaged - code, lets you talk directly with the giant forces of nature.

Answer 10

Obviously, Delphi is Jedism. The uninformed say that "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster" , but in the hands of a master it is immensely powerful. Which of course makes C# Sith - the same power turned to the Dark Side ;-)

HMCG

Answer 11

Wow, original list pro-python much?

Answer 12

Delphi is rock & roll :), it's musican not very religious i think