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To: Old Professer
An interesting concept that, another 50 years to witness this unfolding of what?

The end of algorithmic, functional programming, for one thing.

Man, a reasoning, although not necessarily reasonable, creature shall abandon hope and paradise for more time to look forward to machines smarter than himself?

Reasoning is just a small part of the having-an-advanced-technical-culture game. In some ways, all machines are smarter than all humans. I can get a warranty from Goodyear for my tire to faithfully perform a mindless task for 5 years, day in and day out, without fail. Goodyear wouldn't dream of offering such a warrant on a person, would they?

In my humble opinion, we are rapidly approaching the point where it will be often impossible to debug our code, and our code, consequently, is going to have to learn to be responsible for discerning and fixing it's own bugs. Or, more likely, ignoring them with impugnity.

Just as well I'll be out of this picture--I was born&raised to smite bugs to restore code to it's pristine crystalline beauty, and this will be a foreign world to me.

1,005 posted on 05/09/2003 9:35:43 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
Interesting perspective, how about a milkshake?
1,007 posted on 05/09/2003 9:42:56 PM PDT by Old Professer
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To: donh
The end of algorithmic, functional programming, for one thing.

Probably right for mainline applications. There will always be some use for programmers, just as mathematicians still find things to do. I mean, we need to do something besides watch videos and go fishing. Or maybe it won't be so bad after all, come to think of it.

1,008 posted on 05/09/2003 9:42:59 PM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: donh
Reasoning is just a small part of the having-an-advanced-technical-culture game.

Matter cannot reason and not even the most ardent materialists argue that living things can will themselves into a new species so this argument is absolute nonsense.

1,017 posted on 05/09/2003 10:40:29 PM PDT by gore3000
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