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If I didn’t have reason to reject discovery before, now i really do.
There was a reference in Discovery season one or two to SQL, as if it was cool. Sigh.
@StillPaisleyCat @skullgiver
From an old trek book, the hardware is canonically IBM. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation:_20th_Century_Computers_and_How_They_Worked
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Lisp. All is Lisp.
Data’s entire consciousness was written as an Emacs package.
Klingons program in Brainfuck. A Warrior’s Language!
Vulcans exclusively use APL.
The F in Ferengi stands for Fortran.
Python is banned across the known galaxy. If your race is discovered using it, your planet is immediately bombarded until the entire crust is molten.
Cardassians use Haskell because they’re evil.
The Q continum uses forth.
Pakleds use scratch
PHP was invented by a Pakled
Are you sure? They might have learned something then. Or did they get stuck with a turtle-logic compiler instead?
@bloopernova Wouldn’t the Vulcans prefer Prolog?
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C. It is eternal.
There’s an episode in DS9 where OBrien mentions an issue caused by a pointer fault in the holosuite.
To me this is canon.
Three centuries later, they still haven’t rewritten everything in Rust.
Yeah, my C programs too tend to randomly evolve sentience.
You’re probably not using enough global variables
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In such a case, I suspect that Zig will be absorbed by C using a maneuver that I call “The Zig Zag”. After all, C is eternal.
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Makes sense, if you have an infallible ai. Bc it’s probably outputting machine code and that wouldn’t be so fun to debug.
lieutenant commander data structures.
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UFPLisp
Polarity reversal
@ZenkorSoraz To paraphrase a developer from the ‘80s: “I don’t know what the language of the future will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
Ostensibly Lisp, but most of it is hacked together with perl.
