alphacyberranger to World [email protected]English • 9 months agoArchaeologists discover previously unknown language from ancient tabletwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square33arrow-up1316arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@justastrangerlinkEnglish5•9 months agoBack when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
minus-square@[email protected]cakelinkfedilinkEnglish9•9 months agoExcept that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.
minus-square@mindbleachlinkEnglish2•9 months agoTwo guys argue about whether a blank slab is full of tabs or spaces, and the snake inside the computer sighs to-camera, “It’s a living.”
Back when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
Except that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.
Two guys argue about whether a blank slab is full of tabs or spaces, and the snake inside the computer sighs to-camera, “It’s a living.”