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If I didn't have reason to reject discovery before, now i really do.
There was a reference in Discovery season one or two to SQL, as if it was cool. Sigh.
@StillPaisleyCat @skullgiver
From an old trek book, the hardware is canonically IBM. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation:_20th_Century_Computers_and_How_They_Worked
Lisp. All is Lisp.
Data's entire consciousness was written as an Emacs package.
Klingons program in Brainfuck. A Warrior's Language!
Vulcans exclusively use APL.
The F in Ferengi stands for Fortran.
Python is banned across the known galaxy. If your race is discovered using it, your planet is immediately bombarded until the entire crust is molten.
Cardassians use Haskell because they're evil.
You missed out Q Basic.
Holy shit you win, lol
That's what the Pakled use. The best of them actually use QuickBasic to "make it go faster".
Just to add - obviously all Ferengi programs run on a Blockchain, and are riddled with microtransactions.
I'll just add that Data was previously built as a Vi plugin, but it was evil, so Doctor Soong disassembled it and shut it down. A lot of trouble could have been saved it Dr Soong had learned how to actually exit Vi.
Evil as in emacs evil-mode?
Hahaha, why no python?
The reason has been purged, intentionally forgotten. Vulcans train their entire lives to take on a dangerous task: once every 66 years, the very best of the best view the reason why Python is banned. Once viewed, the Vulcan confirms that it is indeed a just and necessary action to ban the ancient language.
After the task is complete, the Vulcan goes utterly, irretrievably insane and dies mere hours later.
Pakleds use scratch
PHP was invented by a Pakled
Are you sure? They might have learned something then. Or did they get stuck with a turtle-logic compiler instead?
The Q continum uses forth.
@bloopernova Wouldn't the Vulcans prefer Prolog?
No malbolge? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
What about php
Binary
Honestly I've always imagined them using a more natural interface just like when they speak to the computer. So when they run commands it's essentially ai driven, and so is what they see on their screens. Why ever touch a piece of code when an ai can manage it for you and offers a natural interface with flexibility. It would simply be inefficient to do it any other way.
Makes sense, if you have an infallible ai. Bc it’s probably outputting machine code and that wouldn’t be so fun to debug.
lieutenant commander data structures.
You know it’s JavaScript
Wow. That would explain why a light tap to the shields causes everyone's interface to explode in their face.
Polarity reversal
Ostensibly Lisp, but most of it is hacked together with perl.
UFPLisp
@ZenkorSoraz To paraphrase a developer from the ‘80s: “I don't know what the language of the future will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.”
If it's the original series, one has to assume that whatever programming is done, is done on a teletype. Nowhere in Star Trek:TOS is there a screen with words on it, because when the show was made... screens with words on them weren't how you got info from a computer.
Rust. Everything is eventually becoming crabs.
