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Another relevant question I like to think about: If aliens invented computers, what kind of programming language would they have? What kind of design decision
by ingenter 11y ago
Another relevant question I like to think about:
If aliens invented computers, what kind of programming language would they have? What kind of design decisions would they make?
My take on the answer is that they would have at least machine codes, some sort of C, some sort of LISP and lambda calculus.
- waterlesscloud 11y agoRelated, from the last YC RFS about programming tools- "One way to think about this is: what comes after programming languages?" https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
- digitalzombie 11y agoAlgorithms that code themselves I guess. Here's what I want, make it happen. That's an abstraction above programming imo.
- wmf 11y agoUrbit? No wait, that's what kind of language alien trolls would have.
- FractalNerve 11y agorelated: http://doc.urbit.org/ http://doc.urbit.org/
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoSome dialect of APL. It's not that far detached from Lisp, anyway.