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That's a great question. I think any advanced space-faring civilization would have no further use of programming languages as we know them, as any ship or comp
by zephjc 16y ago
That's a great question. I think any advanced space-faring civilization would have no further use of programming languages as we know them, as any ship or computer system would be sentient or even sapient by their builder civilization's standards. Communicating with these artificial minds would be as difficult as communicating with the aliens themselves.
We would have to overcome whatever language barriers we find before being able to do the equivalent of "programming" - I don't think there would be any language below whatever their equivalent of microcode though, nor do I think any language could express everything necessary.
Well, maybe Lisp ;-)
- coryl 16y agoSo you think they could just describe what they need, and their awesome AI computers could just whip up something just like that? If so, even the AI bots would express alien logic birthed unto them (unless we're talking about a species of AI that has evolved into its own race, but lets not go there :D). So at some point, something or someone has to put code down into some hardware.
- zephjc 16y agoWell I think anything that was used to describe the AI programming would have long since been lost to the ages, and the AI outgrown any known language which can describe it.
- xenoterracide 16y agowell really it's mostly hacked together with perl ;)