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said that, i find it kinda cool that reality trumps fiction: no SF author (really no one) predicted that we will build tribes around the languages we use to spe
by franze 13y ago
said that, i find it kinda cool that reality trumps fiction: no SF author (really no one) predicted that we will build tribes around the languages we use to speak to machines.
- jacquesm 13y agoI think you're wrong about that. There were some stories in the 70's about that theme, specifically the parallels between 'magic' in one branch of fiction and programming a computer by interacting with them in some arcane language casting spells in another. The Well World series would probably qualify as an example of the latter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_World_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_World_series
- twic 13y agoA 1977 collection called "Tales From The Computer Room" contains a Bradbury pastiche called "On Mars, Sloppy COBOL is Sudden Death" (or something like that - that's from memory), in which the Martians end up murdering a Terran astronaut because he uses a GOTO.