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Excellent, soon computer-controlled companies can automatically sue each other. "The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184
by sdfjkl 15y ago
Excellent, soon computer-controlled companies can automatically sue each other.
"The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.root.184.E8.FF. All the shares are owned by those companies in equal measure, and I can tell you that their regulations are written in Python. Have a nice day, now!" (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...)
- AkThhhpppt 15y agoWe all went there pretty much immediately, didn't we? I know Charlie reads HN occasionally; I assume if he hasn't already seen this, he soon will...
- huxley 15y agoIt's almost as if Douglas Adams had written Dickens' Bleak House.
- shabble 15y agoI could have sworn it rather mentioned Lisp. Maybe I'm imagining it though. On a pro-python note, I'm also reminded of the not-that-long-ago idea by the SEC to require certain securities to include executable documentation: https://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-python/ https://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-pyt... and http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-require-python http://www.itworld.com/government/105031/will-wall-street-re... for example.