On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:43:44AM +0200, Jb Labrune wrote: > as a friend of some designers who think in space & colors, it always > strucks me that many (not all of course!) of my programmers friends think > like a turing-machine, in 1D, acting as if their code is a long vector, some > kind of snake which unlikes the ouroboros does not eat its own tail...
Today's dominating programming model still assumes human-generated and human-readable code. There are obvious ways where this is not working: GA-generated blobs for 3d-integration hardware, for instance. People are really lousy at dealing with massive parallelism and nondeterminism, yet this is not optional, at least according to known physics of this universe. So, let's say you have Avogadro number of cells in a hardware CA crystal, with an Edge of Chaos rule. Granted you can write the tranformation rule down on the back of the napkin, but what about the state residing in the volume of said crystal? And the state is not really compressible, though you could of course write a seed that grows into something which does something interesting on a somewhat larger napkin, but there's no human way how you could derive that seed, or even understand how that thing does even work. Programmers of the future are more like gardeners and farmers than architects. Programmers of the far future deal with APIs that are persons, or are themselves integral parts of the API, and no longer people. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
