Interview with Jaron Lanier on "Phenotropic" Development

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 25, 2003 @04:28AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

Sky Lemon writes "An interview with Jaron Lanier on Sun's Java site discusses 'phenotropic' development versus our existing set of software paradigms. According to Jaron, the 'real difference between the current idea of software, which is protocol adherence, and the idea [he is] discussing, pattern recognition, has to do with the kinds of errors we're creating' and if 'we don't find a different way of thinking about and creating software, we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become.'"

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10 million lines by the+eric+conspiracy · 2003-01-25 04:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

we will not be writing programs bigger than about 10 million lines of code no matter how fast our processors become

And how is this a problem?
Crap Artist by mr.henry · 2003-01-25 05:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This guy reminds of Ira Einhorn , the hippie guru who BS'd his way into lots of "adjunct appointments" like Mr. Lanier's page says he has. Lots of companies thought he was some eccentric genius because he said freaky things and dressed weird.