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* the only viable approach? v8 is pretty fast; in my programs, i've seen firefox being faster only once yet (in an optimal case for tracing)

* LuaJIT is a tracing JIT

* what are massive performance improvements? i'd say the jump from pure interpreter to static/tracing JIT compilation has already been a massive performance improvement

Whitespace 17 years ago

no, you can't. you see the just the silhouette of the code, not the while code itself - because when selected, tabs and multiple spaces rougly look the same.

Whitespace 17 years ago

aren't whitespace, brainfuck* and ook! the same languages (just differently named keywords)?

i tried csscaffold, but ran into nothing special yet. despite a minor bug it just worked. the biggest nuisance is that my ide (currently netbeans) reports lots of errors in the scaffolded css file because of course it's not valid css anymore.

while i belief in machine consciousness, i don't think human-like intelligence - as described in popular science fiction culture - is likely (though not impossible). intelligence: yes. superhuman intelligence: yes. but human-like intelligence, as in "thinks like a human, reasons like a human"; no * . the bodies, senses, cultures, etc would be just too different.

so silicon-based intelligence would be very strange and incomprehensible for us, and i doubt we'd recognize it as an intelligent being easily.

* with the possible exception of eliza