OT: Happy Birthday Larry Niven

[Brad Clements]

Guess I better go back and re-read the book.

As I recall.. Moties are essentially genetically designed for their
particular task. .As in the case of the vehicle drivers who swerved around
each other and looked like they were going to crash, but didn't.

If they used Perl, they would crash.

Besides, Motie engineers could recombine essential elements quickly to suit
their needs, in an efficient manner. That smacks of "batteries included" and
I'd say Perl code could not be recombined..

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"Jeremy Bowers" <newsfroups at jerf.org> wrote in message
news:3CCEBD17.5040903 at jerf.org...
> Brad Clements wrote:
> > I think Python is a language that Motie Engineers would use...
>
> Oh goodness, no. They'd definately *prefer* perl; Python is too damned
> clean and very, very human.
>
> Even perl's probably a little on the clean side, for them. Motie
> engineers would go beyond "There's more then one way to do it", they'd
> want "It does more then one thing at a time." They'd probably like a
> language where every *char* can do at least two or three things. My
> guess is assembler with a suitably kooky CPU.
>
> This is a Motie programmer at work:
> http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/The-Story-of-Mel.html . See, he uses the
> same opcodes as both code *and* data at some points... just as an example.
>




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