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As for 'why bootstrap'... Since Reflections on Trusting Trust has been linked already, I'm going to offer something else. Today's nightmare: https://www.teamte
by Filligree 8y ago
As for 'why bootstrap'...
Since Reflections on Trusting Trust has been linked already, I'm going to offer something else. Today's nightmare: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/ https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
- lathiat 8y agoI'm going to have nightmares for a decade after reading that...
- axaxs 8y agoThanks for this, I'd never read it before and it was very interesting. But by the end I had more questions than answers. In this situation, my first thought would never be 'i need to write my own compiler', vs say, trying any combo of the handful of c compilers on other boxes. Also it's not clear to me about the ending. Was this a real story? I couldn't tell if the 'letter' was meant to be a dystopian what-if, real, or anything in between.
- Filligree 8y agoThe entire page is fiction, presumably. Hopefully. That being said, it's not professional fiction. It's possibly the first work of the writer, and works because of talent (probably) and a good premise (definitely), but it's sorely lacking in polish and editing. I wouldn't look too closely at the cracks. :)
- jtjj222 8y agoNot related, but Coding Machines reminded me of the relatively unknown movie Pontypool, which has a similar premise (I won't spoil it).
- Filligree 8y agoI looked it up on Wikipedia, sorry. :) It does look like an interesting movie. I think I'll take a look.