From the “Well that’s a Half-baked Idea if I Ever Heard One” Dept
June 1st, 2005Sometimes I get this annoying suspicion that the COMPUTER SCIENCE obsession with “validation” and “parsing” is completely misguided, and that it would be much more sensible to deal with probabilities from the ground up.
No, I have no idea what I’m talking about. It just seems incredibly wrong that one misplaced semicolon can make a million lines of code come crashing down.
DNA works, after all.
Yeah, DNA works - and look at how much brainpower has been consumed trying to map and understand the damn thing. I would bet any programming language that uses a statistical/probabilitical syntax will end up with code just as hard to read…
- Carlos Villela @ 3 June 2005Plus, imagine the millions of years of buggy code we’d have to suffer to chance upon something that worked.
And then what if it got cancer? Ooh, maybe it’d grow really big and take over the internet.
All joking aside, it’s an intriguing thought.
- Viv @ 7 June 2005