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Letter: Code monkeys

Published 16 December 2014

From Henry Lynam

The screenshot illustrating your story on computers that can program themselves (1 November, p 21) shows PHP code in which the main method begins with an instruction to print the word “banana”, followed immediately by an “exit” clause, which makes the rest of the code redundant.

Have the programmers already been replaced by a roomful of monkeys with web access?
Dublin, Ireland

Issue no. 3000 published 20 December 2014

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