Monday, January 24, 2005

archival computing

How do I write a program that's still runnable in 100 years? The concern is not preserving the media -- the code can survive on a piece of archival paper, if necessary. But will the platform be around? Would the translator and APIs exist? Should I include source code, or supply a binary and hope that emulators for Win32 are going to survive until the twenty-second century?

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