How much do you like philosophy?

[Napoléon]

Computer programming comes directly from Logic - a branch of Philosophy call Anglo American Philosophy which is essentially built on a line of Philosophers including Russel , Wittgenstein and Ayer. Ayer wrote Language, Truth, and Logic in 1924 and Computer programming was born directly out of it. No Anglo-American philosophy means no computing. Critical thinking is also a direct product of Philosophy.

Care to back up what you're saying with some sources? I've done a brief search and found no mention of Logic programming having any connection to the people you mentioned or indeed this anglo-american philosophy...

Also, I think I may have a different idea of what philosophy is to what you do. I studied critical thinking myself at college level, I've also had a few classes in philosophy and found the two schools of thought to be very different. Philosophy seems to me to be concerned with asking questions and proposing paradoxes, that's about it. Critical thinking is all about employing logic to discern the strongest arguments and from there, truth. I guess there may be some crossover between the two but I think they're pretty different approaches when it comes to logical thinking. Then again I might have the totally wrong idea of what philosophy is and I may be thinking it's a lot more basic than what it actually is. As FreeTony said, a good definition of philosophy might make it easier for me to understand its relevance, but I've not seen any definition or use of philosophy that goes out and actually answers questions.

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Napo,

Philosophy is involved in computer science, too. It has contributed in many ways in laying out the goals and methodology of our daily computational artifacts.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computer-science/

For nearly every field of study, there is a branch of philosophy, called the philosophy of that field. …Since the main purpose of a given field of study is to contribute to knowledge, the philosophy of X is, at least in part, a branch of epistemology. Its purpose is to provide an account of the goals, methodology, and subject matter of X. (Shapiro 1983: 525)

To me this kind of philosophy is very different to the one implied in the OP. A different meaning almost. You may call creating goals and methodology "philosophy", I think it's a rather loose use of the term personally.

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It was a joke, douche bag. I realize that as a Muslim you're somewhat humor impaired by necessity, but do try to think outside the box occasionally.

It didn't seem like a joke to be fair, I thought myself you were being pretty bitchy. Guess that's our fault for misinterpreting.