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Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by badpun on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:52AM (#33019870)
That assumes that, future civilizations will be even interested in understanding our current codebases. I wonder if there will be code historians?
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by shakezula on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:28AM (#33020330)
I am almost certain there will be because we already have people intensely interested in source code from the 50s and 60s.
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by TremendousJudge on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:19PM (#33022811)
Yeah, a great example is this presentation[1] about the Apollo guidance computer. The guy is really, really into it and it just makes the presentation amazing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM

Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by GnarfGnarf on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:56AM (#33019920)
I predict future "crypto-archaeologists" will comb over our primitive source code like Medieval manuscripts, and will run our programs in quantum computer simulators to exercise all paths, and discover bugs we never suspected.
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by sizzzzlerz on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:41AM (#33021366)
"Why did the ancient programmers (blessed be their names), have such a proclivity for always greeting the earth?"
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by BitwiseFool on Thursday September 29, 2022 @12:13PM (#33022719)
It is believed that ancient computersmiths were a superstitious caste. They believed in an entity known as "World", and it was custom to greet this deity as both a recognition of its power and an invocation to receive it's divine favor. Computersmiths were also known to compose poetry documenting their capabilities. It was typical for computersmiths to update this prose, commonly referred to as a 'resume', upon successfully greeting World.
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by dopidopHN on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:45AM (#33022308)
It’s surely a religious matter, the context is lost at this point but that our best estimate.
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by naveen99 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:13AM (#33020145)
I don’t think quantum computers get you past the halting problem.
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by otikik on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:20PM (#33025737)
Thank you, now I feel preemtively ashamed
Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by acheron on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:19AM (#33021923)
"I want my warp engines, Mr. Laforge." https://abstrusegoose.com/323