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MavropaliasG | 2 years ago

So they didn't use an object-oriented programming language, they used a functional programming language.

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schneems|2 years ago

Easier to parallelize and without all the side effects, which only occur when trying to directly observe them.

edgyquant|2 years ago

No they used the equivalent of a crazy, maybe infinitely, dense “bit” and all “programming” is things invented by the human brain to model this unknowable “objective” architecture. The universe isn’t actually a computer and even if it is it’s a computer so beyond us that computer science isn’t adequate to describe it.

meitham|2 years ago

Functional lisp I think God used

gpderetta|2 years ago

Nominally. In reality most of it is just a bunch of perl scripts stiched together.

photon_lines|2 years ago

Yes, and that's precisely my hypothesis :)

romusha|2 years ago

Should have stated in the post that it's your hypothesis