@o_guest that’s just a norm though; better arguments here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_numbering …. Both useful.
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@o_guest for a brief moment I thought ada was APL and I got excited. My prof wrote APL & lisp when he did CS in the 80s. -
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@o_guest probably! but I bet scheme will still be around. no libraries make intro to cs classes easier :) -
@jtth apparently the evil AI that will rule us requires us to write it in lisp or something - haha -
@jtth I just googled it just to check I had not made that up - I didn't. They are so into lisp. -
@jtth if you want to waste your life check p. 254 https://intelligence.org/files/CFAI.pdf -
@o_guest when i saw ydkowsky’s name i said “oh boy” out loud. but that’s probably right re: self-modifying code. -
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