User:Shooonya

Shooonya
शून्य- यो सन्स्क्रीत् भासा बात उद्द्रीत् शब्द हो | नेपाल र भारत्बासीहरूमा यस शब्द को प्रयोग प्रचलन्मा छ |्

The Word
Shooonya is a Sanskrit derived word whose literal meaning is zero. It can also mean various other things depending upon the context of use. It is generally used to define a state of emptiness or vacuum.

Shooonya has intrigued mankind for all of its history. The enigma behind the seemingly simple concept of "nothingness" has incited many philosophical and spiritual debates throughout the course of human civilization. In Eastern philosophy, shooonya has often been used to refer to the frugality of human life and to emphasize on the importance of moksha or the transcendence from ordinary life to the divine spiritual awakening. Reference to this concept can even be found in ancient Hindu and Buddhist scripts. The word has been used to explain the sense of enlightened calmness and stillness. Shooonya also denotes a more visible sense of emptiness amidst the chaos of ordinary life.

As opposed to all this, the obvious and more general interpretation of the word is to signify something that is very futile or empty.

Many other words have been derived from the root shooonya. Examples include shunyata and "shunyabad" having various implications in religion, philosophy, literature, politics or even lifestyle. The closest Engish word to denote the philosophical connotation of shooonya could be nihilism though this could be debated on.

In modern digital technology, every information is represented by means of two states: zero and one. Zero constitutes one half of the binary alphabet used in computer technology.

Computer programmers extensively use the term void or null to represent something that doesn't exist or is equal to zero. In UNIX and GNU/Linux terminology,/dev/null is a logical device that ignores any input it receives and may be called metaphorically equivalent to a dumping site or a black hole.

The Person
I am an undergraduate student of Engineering. I am 21 years old. I am a Nepalese of Indo-Aryan origin.

Interests
My primary field of study is Computer Science but my interests span a wide varieties of area. I will be writing about them by and by.

Programming
I am learning how to write beautiful programs. I am not a professional or an expert programmer.

However, I think I am a passionate student of the art of computer programming (at least, I hope to become one).

I am a staunch supporter of free and open source movement.

Donald Knuth, Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie and others are demigods to me. I am of the opinion that the C programming language alongside UNIX, GNU/Linux is more than a computer terminology; it is a religion.

Since I am an amateur, I don't know much already to write about, but keep watching this section.

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