In between are the computations that make life worth living.
Gotta go slow to know what is fast.
I think the compiler that made me did not have dead code elimination.
This is computational mysticism (cf. quantum mysticism).
Please don't encourage computational mysticism. Computer science does not need to attract crackpots. Let all the crackpots stick with physics.
>>5
Can we still conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells?
>>3
A sufficiently advanced programmer has no need for dead code elimination.
>>7
Because the programmer is already dead by that time.
Can we still conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells?
Absolutely not. That is superstition that responsible educators must discourage.
Computer science education needs a revolution. The Nicolas Bourbaki of computer science will permanently change the way computer science is taught. For a better tomorrow.
Implying computer science hasn't been full of crackpots from the beginning.
>>9
If Nicolas Bourbaki made a computer science program it would at least be applied math. The more realistic dystopian future is one where computer science is no longer offered, only coding, and hermeneutics, a true dark art. Arguably we're already there.
>>10
There were never anywhere close to enough crackpots. The only reason it might seem like there were many today is either because they were the ones that mattered, or because of how far we've fallen.
I'm thinking about throwing an exception tonight.
The more realistic dystopian future is one where computer science is no longer offered, only coding, and hermeneutics, a true dark art.
Could you give some concrete examples of hermeneutics as applied to computer science? I have trouble imagining what that would be like in practice.
By "coding", do you mean "programming by poking"? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628080 )
>>11
Falling from the heavens was allegory made by the behavioral programmers for other programmers.
>>15
Infact dense cold goes down spacious chaotic heat goes up this is a allegory written in nature by programmers that i don't have a name for.
>>13
Aye, that's what I meant. Coding is output by poke, hermeneutics is input by poke.
It's the CIRCLE OF LIFE
https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc?t=142
Pass me a continuation, will ya?
At birth a continuation is taken, at death that continuation is called.
How is this possible? Calling the continuation implies time travel back to the point before the continuation is taken. Do you mean to say that life has no effect?
time travel
Someone doesn't understand continuations.
>>20
Please explain. What is wrong with my understanding? I have implemented call-with-current-continuation in my Scheme, but it seems that I do not completely understand it.
IIRC It's more of explicitly delineated control flow than time travel.