Here’s an exercise in separating fundamentals from conventions: if we held a technical summit with all of the galaxy’s advanced alien civilizations, what would we find we had in common, and what would we find inscrutable?
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The goal of a high level programming language is to be something that we and these alien civilizations could agree on as universal and principled, and free of quirks and arbitrarity.
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yeah, what is it they know we don't and visa versa? Would we share the same physics? Probably.
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