/prog/rider's secret society

We should create a club/lodge for programmers. If stonemasons created one many years ago just because they knew how to carve stupid stones and build some basic structures, why we still don't have one?
This is what we need:
◦ A symbol.
◦ A secret handshake.
◦ A set of rules.
◦ An unknown leader.
◦ An unknown sub-leader.
◦ A library with exceptional computer books, a printed version of world4ch's /prog/ (aka The Old Testament), ancient computers, and other relics.
◦ A list of heretic languages carved in stone.

>>9

If anything, we should encourage the notion that computers are inaccessible and hard to understand. We could use that belief to our advantage.

This is too extreme.

My life goal is to create or otherwise contribute to an understandable computer. A truly understandable computer from the schematics of the keyboard and the display to the CPU. The commercial success of this product is one of the goals. It's not enough for Symbolics to have once made Lisp Machines, they should still be making them today. There is a market here however niche.

By understandable I mean understandable to a non-retard, but understandable nonetheless.

I want computers to stop being used primarily as convenient all-in-one-1800s-state-of-the-art multi devices (i.e. telephone, telegram and television but all in one!) and start being used as a means of moulding abstract things (i.e. programs and the things they represent) like clay.

I don't think its right that the only thing that separates a programmer from a non programmer isn't intelligence or love for ideas but just how much stupid pointless bullshit (x86, UNIX etc.) you're willing to put up with.