Re:Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012)
by franze on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @03:30AM
(#7596536)
said that, i find it kinda cool that reality trumps fiction: no SF author (really no one) predicted that we will build tribes around the languages we use to speak to machines.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012)
by twic on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @09:46AM
(#7597682)
A 1977 collection called "Tales From The Computer Room" contains a Bradbury pastiche called "On Mars, Sloppy COBOL is Sudden Death" (or something like that - that's from memory), in which the Martians end up murdering a Terran astronaut because he uses a GOTO.
Re:Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012)
by jacquesm on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:02AM
(#7596886)
I think you're wrong about that. There were some stories in the 70's about that theme, specifically the parallels between 'magic' in one branch of fiction and programming a computer by interacting with them in some arcane language casting spells in another.
The Well World series would probably qualify as an example of the latter.