Goddamnit Paul Graham [IHBT]

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

Presumably many libraries will be for domains that don't even exist yet. If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advanced that they already communicate in XML.

Good one, Paul Graham. You had me fooled for a good while there.

>>6,7
all programming languages are equivalent in terms of what they can compute with infinite time and memory
infinite time and memory
Where did you pick that lie from? Some food for thought: most of complexity classes are defined in terms of (suitably enchanced) Touring machines. Oh, silly computer scientists, they don't know that TMs are supposed to run on infinite memory for infinite time who should go and tell them, you, >>6 , or you, >>7 ?

>>10
regardless of the magical land of TM's any language can be coded to interpret itself
All interpreters are written in a compiled language, such as C. Because, you see, even if you have your Python interpreter written in Python, you'd have to find a Python interpreter written in C or Java or whatever to [i]run[i] it. Welcome to the real world, moran!