Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?

Posted by 100001_100011 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

If it was announced Aliens made contact with Earth, which programming language is most likely used in Alien UFOs and why?

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Re:Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use? by mindcrime on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#32630889)

Probably INTERCAL[1]. I mean, this looks pretty alien to me already.

  DO ,1 <- #13
  PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #1 <- #238
  DO ,1 SUB #2 <- #108
  DO ,1 SUB #3 <- #112
  DO ,1 SUB #4 <- #0
  DO ,1 SUB #5 <- #64
  DO ,1 SUB #6 <- #194
  DO ,1 SUB #7 <- #48
  PLEASE DO ,1 SUB #8 <- #22
  DO ,1 SUB #9 <- #248
  DO ,1 SUB #10 <- #168
  DO ,1 SUB #11 <- #24
  DO ,1 SUB #12 <- #16
  DO ,1 SUB #13 <- #162
  PLEASE READ OUT ,1
  PLEASE GIVE UP

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

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Re:Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use? by retrac on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:23PM (#32630659)

Hopefully they'll still be running on Interbase, like back in '96.

https://web.archive.org/web/20011118011732/http://www.cert.o...

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Re:Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use? by belter on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:44PM (#32630860)

If they are hostile, hopefully they use C++. We will poke through their armor in no time...Now...If they send messages praising the latest Rust build we are doomed.

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Re:Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use? by inphovore on Sunday August 28, 2022 @04:47PM (#32631910)

True intelligence is more like chemistry, not procedural/linear logic.

Consider potentials and their distributions, tolerances, constraints, trigger conditions, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use? by Lacerda69 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @02:24PM (#32630666)

definitely Javascript.

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