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If I didn’t have reason to reject discovery before, now i really do.
There was a reference in Discovery season one or two to SQL, as if it was cool. Sigh.
@StillPaisleyCat @skullgiver
From an old trek book, the hardware is canonically IBM. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation:_20th_Century_Computers_and_How_They_Worked
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Lisp. All is Lisp.
Data’s entire consciousness was written as an Emacs package.
Klingons program in Brainfuck. A Warrior’s Language!
Vulcans exclusively use APL.
The F in Ferengi stands for Fortran.
Python is banned across the known galaxy. If your race is discovered using it, your planet is immediately bombarded until the entire crust is molten.
Cardassians use Haskell because they’re evil.
You missed out Q Basic.
Holy shit you win, lol
That’s what the Pakled use. The best of them actually use QuickBasic to “make it go faster”.
The F in Ferengi stands for Fortran.
If Ferengi were to use a language that old, you’d think it would be the COmmon Business-Oriented Language.
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Just to add - obviously all Ferengi programs run on a Blockchain, and are riddled with microtransactions.
Pakleds use scratch
PHP was invented by a Pakled
Are you sure? They might have learned something then. Or did they get stuck with a turtle-logic compiler instead?
The Q continum uses forth.
Hahaha, why no python?
The reason has been purged, intentionally forgotten. Vulcans train their entire lives to take on a dangerous task: once every 66 years, the very best of the best view the reason why Python is banned. Once viewed, the Vulcan confirms that it is indeed a just and necessary action to ban the ancient language.
After the task is complete, the Vulcan goes utterly, irretrievably insane and dies mere hours later.
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I’m going with Vulcans using APL*. Why create a language that makes you do more than just write the equations?
@StillPaisleyCat @startrek Of *course* their programming language would require a special keyboard.
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@bloopernova Wouldn’t the Vulcans prefer Prolog?
No malbolge? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
What about php
C. It is eternal.
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Yeah, my C programs too tend to randomly evolve sentience.
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Three centuries later, they still haven’t rewritten everything in Rust.
SMH should have rewritten in Rust
C will be swapped out function by function with Zig.
In such a case, I suspect that Zig will be absorbed by C using a maneuver that I call “The Zig Zag”. After all, C is eternal.
Nooooooooooo!!!
Have you seen how people do programming? We see lots of it in Voyager around holograms. It’s basically today’s AI programming assistants on steroids. everything probably uses some fucking 300 years JavaScript as a basis, and that’s why everything keeps breaking all the time.
I really want to see an episode of Lower Decks where the captain watches engineers write programs, comes to the conclusion that “programming is just talking to the computer – I can do that” and fires all the engineers (or transfers them to other functions.)
Thanks, I read it in Freeman’s voice.
Yeah they just tell the computer what they want. They’re prompt engineers hundreds of years in the future. Programming, replicator, holodeck, lights in the quarters, whatever. Makes you wonder what all the button pushing is on the bridge. Maybe because it’s quieter than everyone talking over each other?
Thank you for plausibly explaining every holodeck episode. That’s canon for me now.
This is simply too good…
One million lines of BASIC!
Unstructured Basic (with no documentation naturally.)
Binary
lieutenant commander data structures.
Honestly I’ve always imagined them using a more natural interface just like when they speak to the computer. So when they run commands it’s essentially ai driven, and so is what they see on their screens. Why ever touch a piece of code when an ai can manage it for you and offers a natural interface with flexibility. It would simply be inefficient to do it any other way.
Makes sense, if you have an infallible ai. Bc it’s probably outputting machine code and that wouldn’t be so fun to debug.
C+++
You know it’s JavaScript
The only example given on Memory Alpha is a decompiled section of StuxNet https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Programming_code so that implies that C and C++ are both still in use
No, nothing on discovery is real.
Not a language, but isn’t there some beta canon somewhere that states that LCARS is a derivative of Linux or something?
Waiting for an engineer to pull up holo-Torvalds to debate C vs rust the way they pull up holo-Einstein to argue relativity.
Or holo-Leah Brahms to have creepy relationships with.
Computer, run program Stallman1.
GPL V2 detected. Program self terminated.
@ZenkorSoraz To paraphrase a developer from the ‘80s: “I don’t know what the language of the future will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
UFPLisp
Polarity reversal
Rust. Everything is eventually becoming crabs.
