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Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
If it was announced Aliens made contact with Earth, which programming language is most likely used in Alien UFOs and why?
- retrac 4y agoHopefully they'll still be running on Interbase, like back in '96. https://web.archive.org/web/20011118011732/http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-01.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011118011732/http://www.cert.o...
- Lacerda69 4y agodefinitely Javascript.
- belter 4y agoIf they are hostile, hopefully they use C++. We will poke through their armor in no time...Now...If they send messages praising the latest Rust build we are doomed.
- mindcrime 4y agoProbably INTERCAL[1]. I mean, this looks pretty alien to me already. DO ,1 <- #13 PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #238 DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #108 DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #112 DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #0 DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #64 DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #194 DO ,1 SUB #7 <- #48 PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #8 <- #22 DO ,1 SUB #9 <- #248 DO ,1 SUB #10 <- #168 DO ,1 SUB #11 <- #24 DO ,1 SUB #12 <- #16 DO ,1 SUB #13 <- #162 PLEASE READ OUT ,1 PLEASE GIVE UP [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
- inphovore 4y agoTrue intelligence is more like chemistry, not procedural/linear logic. Consider potentials and their distributions, tolerances, constraints, trigger conditions, etc.