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That assumes that, future civilizations will be even interested in understanding our current codebases. I wonder if there will be code historians?
by badpun 4y ago
That assumes that, future civilizations will be even interested in understanding our current codebases. I wonder if there will be code historians?
- GnarfGnarf 4y agoI predict future "crypto-archaeologists" will comb over our primitive source code like Medieval manuscripts, and will run our programs in quantum computer simulators to exercise all paths, and discover bugs we never suspected.
- naveen99 4y agoI don’t think quantum computers get you past the halting problem.
- sizzzzlerz 4y ago"Why did the ancient programmers (blessed be their names), have such a proclivity for always greeting the earth?"
- dopidopHN 4y agoIt’s surely a religious matter, the context is lost at this point but that our best estimate.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoIt is believed that ancient computersmiths were a superstitious caste. They believed in an entity known as "World", and it was custom to greet this deity as both a recognition of its power and an invocation to receive it's divine favor. Computersmiths were also known to compose poetry documenting their capabilities. It was typical for computersmiths to update this prose, commonly referred to as a 'resume', upon successfully greeting World.
- otikik 4y agoThank you, now I feel preemtively ashamed
- shakezula 4y agoI am almost certain there will be because we already have people intensely interested in source code from the 50s and 60s.
- TremendousJudge 4y agoYeah, a great example is this presentation[1] about the Apollo guidance computer. The guy is really, really into it and it just makes the presentation amazing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
- acheron 4y ago"I want my warp engines, Mr. Laforge." https://abstrusegoose.com/323 https://abstrusegoose.com/323