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Interview with Jaron Lanier on "Phenotropic" Development

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Get that man a haircut, STAT! by MonTemplar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe his thinking is being affected by the 10 millions miles of dreadlocks coming out of his head. :)

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  2. Re:In the future... by ChrisTaylor2904 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And in Soviet Russia, it'll be the other way around...

  3. Re:This is an interesting concept... by Anonymous+Hack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I want to reply, but i'm totally exhausted. It's 4:20am here and i'm not thinking straight any more. I'll get back to you tomorrow if you're interested and this is still on the front page :)

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