Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries

Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by throwaway7645 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:36PM (#15184979)

I'm curious what we would even use to run a true starship that needs to be 100% reliable for decades. Maybe Rust will be a good candidate some day? I think it needs to have that speed & safety, but be much higher level.

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by setr on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:00PM (#15185191)

I doubt the language picked will have significant impact; reliability will mostly depend on the extensiveness/correctness of simulations. And presumably with sufficient coverage (and at the scale, we require it) memory bugs will be the least of our safety worries

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:01PM (#15185197)

I'm guessing full AI that can maintain itself. Vernor Vinge assumes the singularity hasn't and will never happen, but most fanciful and pragmatic visions of the far future don't make that assumption.

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