The God Language

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Dec 29 07:12:19 PST 2011


On 12/29/11 4:15 AM, Caligo wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
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>     http://pastebin.com/AtuzJqh0
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> This is somewhat of a serious question:  If there is a God (I'm not
> saying there isn't, and I'm not saying there is), what language would he
> choose to create the universe?  It would be hard for us mortals to
> imagine, but would it resemble a functional programming language more or
> something else?  And what type of hardware would the code run on?  I
> mean, there are computations happening all around us, e.g., when an
> apple falls or planets circle the sun, etc, so what's performing all the
> computation?

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/224/

Andrei


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