Post #2424939
2026-02-18 14:11 UTC
@michael@toot.mynameismwd.org @jarkman@chaos.social Fuck yes! I want a thousand languages to bloom. It seems like once everyone used to write their own language and we fell out of the habit. The Dragon Book used to be required reading for CS…
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@thatsten@hachyderm.io 2026-02-18 15:17
@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social @michael@toot.mynameismwd.org @jarkman@chaos.social I once asked a very senior HPC developer at Red Hat what keeps him up at night and he said, paraphrasing and pulling from memory that's about 15 years old now, "we haven't created new computer science since the 1960s and I fear we'll exhaust what we know before we discover anything new," and I think about that a lot these days.