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Its worse. Its approaching "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" territory amongst the nerdy set.(1)

(1) It's turtles all the way down. (1)




Of course there is a Darmok and Jalad xkcd: https://xkcd.com/902/


Which is now the D&J@T xkcd for that particular episode of TNG...

So. Many. Turtles.


"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aliens are using a prototype language like Javascript, instead of a class based language like Java. I think we need a programming language that takes this to its natural conclusion, where everything is expressed as weighted directed associations between objects (or weights on ordered lists of objects).


The Vulcans do that through a mind meld.




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