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Comp sci in 2017:

Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments.

Teaching assistant: You have failed to understand not just compilers but the concept of computation itself.

Comp sci in 2027:

Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments.

TA: That's weird. Have you tried adding a comment at the start of the file asking the compiler to pay closer attention to the comments?

Student: Yes.

TA: Have you tried repeating the comments? Just copy and paste them, so they say the same thing twice? Sometimes the compiler listens the second time.

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gQyphPbaLHBMJoghD/comp-sci-in-2027-short-story-by-eliezer-yudkowsky

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