Friday, January 8, 2010

Why is there a ';Programming Bible'; but not a ';Programming Qur'an'; ?

You see various ';Bible'; books, claiming to be the authority on a certain subject, like car repair, C++, whatever. Why aren't there any similar ';Qur'an'; books?Why is there a ';Programming Bible'; but not a ';Programming Qur'an'; ?
Qur'an means ';the recitation'; and Bible means ';the book';. So unless you're reciting car repair, ';Car Repair Qur'an'; isn't a fitting name. Both with connotations of authority from being books of religious athority. But practially, when people started naming their books to be athoritative guides, the authors and potential buyers knew more readily what people meant by ';bible';.Why is there a ';Programming Bible'; but not a ';Programming Qur'an'; ?
Because there are probably a lot more Publishers/Writers here in the west that are Christian. Plus, only a small % of people here are Muslims, it's way too small of a target audience to make a sufficient profit to warrant the publishing of said book.
Us hard core programmers use the x86 asm programming Bible.





There might be a programmers Qur'an used by malware developers to infiltrate and blow up operating systems.





Ask this qustion next time you're in Vegas at Black Hat and Defcon.
Muslims would probably blow up the publisher of any such ';Qurans'; for disrespect.
Because the bible is more popular.
There is another meaning for the word bible. It has nothing to do with religion.
BIBLE IS REAL BUT IVE never heard of this kind of Bible...

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