The english language, and other languages like it, are living. They're not suitable as the final form to publish in. Who knows what language we'll be speaking i

The english language, and other languages like it, are living. They're not suitable as the final form to publish in. Who knows what language we'll be speaking in a few millennia? It's best to write in a series of emojis, the universal language. My point is that we've done a pretty good job at archiving and deciphering ancient text so far. There's no reason to think that we won't be able to emulate current CPU architectures (and run virtual machines on them) for a long time. Pseudocode works for algorithms, and it worked for your case, but it doesn't work for the 99% of scientific software with more than a thousand lines. Executable papers are absolutely possible and are currently being created with virtualization/containers. It's just not easy yet.