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A comment on Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whole humanity reach 160?.

Re:Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whol... by h2odragon on Thursday November 16, 2023 @09:26AM (#38289877)
"IQ" is an average, so "the whole of humanity" should by definition be around 100 IQ at any given time, right?

If everybody was half again as smart as they are now, the gleaming perfection of the Ada language would become undeniable and everyone would adopt it immediately.

Seriously, why would "smarter people" not need tools as or more diverse than those in use now? You think that there's "one true language" of programming that is Universally Perfect and only our idiocy has prevented us from implementing it thus far?

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Re:Ask HN: What programming language do we use if IQ of whol... by rowanG077 on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:36AM (#38290832)
Technically correct. But not the point of the question. The question is essentially: "What programming language do we use if IQ of whole humanity reaches 160 measured at the 2023 level?"
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