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taybinyesterday at 5:09 PM1 replyview on HN

The sci-fi novel A Fire in the Deep starts with describing a Software Archeologist, who digs through millennia of strata of layers of indirection and I think we could end up needing that one day.


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saltcuredyesterday at 7:04 PM

Do they end up determining that every weird piece of code they find must have been used for religious or ritualistic purposes?

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