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Stargate SG-1 S7E9 "Avenger 2.0"

https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s7/avenger-2-0/

In this episode, Dr. Felger comes up with a virus that is able to remotely disable stargates. After it doesn't go as planned, Sam comes in to help and we see this montage that involves writing code on a whiteboard.

I thought it was sort of silly how she wasn't just brainstorming pseudocode here, which is generally the type of thing that I see coders doing with whiteboards. No, that seems to be a full verbose script, written character-for-character. But as I looked closer, it got worse. That language seems to be C#. If we take this situation as literal as possible, that must mean the SGC had come up with some .NET-like middleware framework sort of thing for interacting with the stargate. I would imagine that there were better languages that they could have used instead.

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[โ€“] artwork@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Wonderful day!

Thank you for being so observant and cautious!

This reminded me of the when I paused the 6th episode of season 4 of Stranger Things, when I noticed C#-like and modern HTML/CSS/JS syntax on the screen, where CSS "flexbox" was implemented in 2009 only, yet the film events are in ~1980.

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That's just embarrassing, given that even laymen should expect 30 GOTO 10. If they're using an Amiga emulator there had to be some Forth or TCL files included.