/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.

>>52
Your analysis pretty good.

A ``datatypes'' service for UNIX clones would be welcome by me, but it's against the UNIX way: The daemon (or library or whatever) would have to provide a pretty darn good (and ideally polymorphic) interface to a wide variety of files representing different things, from videos to images to audio to database serializations to spreadsheets to documents etc. etc. and could hardly be called ``doing one thing and doing it well'' as it would be doing MPEG decoding, XML parsing, PNG compression and decompression etc. etc.

I don't give a rats butt about the UNIX way though :D

Again, it would be papering over the true problem. Nevertheless it's paper I would welcome.