cuneiform

Why should I to go back to scratching out base-60 cuneiform?

I mean, we're still digging up clay cuneiform tablets faster than we can translate them all...

I studied the example page[1] from his book with his hand-written edits like it was ancient cuneiform.

The Babylonians did this with cuneiform, the Romans did this with roads, Radio did this, TV did this, the Internet did this.

In the Archlinux community repo there is also, ocrad, cuneiform and gocr.

It's like arguing that printing a book on five pound clay cuneiform tablets is a good idea, because that's how the Babylonians would have done it.

It's as if the mesopotamians somehow invented computers, and because of tradition, all code has to be written as cuneiform on wet clay tablets, then fired in ovens before being read.

I'm one of those "grey-bearded wizards of Lisp/Haskell/whatever" but I like the idea of becoming one of the "insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long.

It's a pity the only thing he has to say about Erlang is"insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long"Seems kind of equivalent to: "no, I never looked at Python - I heard it uses white space".

"... as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman ultranerds, smarter than those childish Rails/JavaScript/PHP/whatever developers that couldnt write a bubble sort or comprehend even basic algorithmic complexity, but more in touch with reality than the grey-bearded wizards of Lisp/Haskell/whatever that sat in their caves/towers/whatever solving contrived, nonexistent problems for people that dont exist, or those insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long.