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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€“] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US airforce runs the Stargate program don't they? It would make sense for them to use some middleware to align with the rest of the bureaucracy. Microsoft probably won the "Acivate the Stargate" request for proposal.

And not even three-letter agencies could talk them out of mandating Apps Hungarian.