On Jun 5, 6:50 pm, Torgny Tholerus <tor....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> public static void main(String[] a) {
>
> println("Sometimes I get this strange and wonderful feeling");
> println("that I am 'special' in some way.");
> println("I feel that what I am doing really is significant");
> println("to the course of history, that I am in some story.");
> println("Sometimes I wish that I could find out whether what");
> println("I am doing is somehow significant, that I am not just");
> println("a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing");
> println("is not 'meaningless'.");
>
> }
>
> You can make more complicated programs, that is not so obvious, by
> "genetic programming". But it will take rather long time. The nature
> had to work for over a billion years to make the human beings. But with
> genetic programming you will succeed already after only a million
> years. Then you will have a program that is equally conscious as you are.
>
> --
> Torgny Tholerus
An additional word of advise for budding programmers. For heaven's
sake don't program in Java! It'll take you one million years to
achieve same functionality of only a few years of Ruby code:
http://www.wisegeek.com/contest/what-is-ruby.htm
Cheers!
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Received on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 02:57:49 PDT