If it was announced Aliens made contact with Earth, which programming language is most likely used in Alien UFOs and why?
Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
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Re: Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
#2Hopefully they'll still be running on Interbase, like back in '96.
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Re: Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
#3definitely Javascript.
Re: Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
#4If they are hostile, hopefully they use C++. We will poke through their armor in no time...Now...If they send messages praising the latest Rust build we are doomed.
Re: Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
#5Probably INTERCAL[1]. I mean, this looks pretty alien to me already.
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#6True intelligence is more like chemistry, not procedural/linear logic.
Consider potentials and their distributions, tolerances, constraints, trigger conditions, etc.