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s|k
March 21st, 2006, 01:32 AM
The compiler or the source?

:mrgreen:

majikstreet
March 21st, 2006, 01:35 AM
eughhhhhhh.......... neither.

rfruth
March 21st, 2006, 01:36 AM
The horse or the cart ?

mstlyevil
March 21st, 2006, 01:36 AM
The chicken or the egg?

majikstreet
March 21st, 2006, 01:57 AM
The baby or the reproductive organs?

bored2k
March 21st, 2006, 02:22 AM
God.

taurus
March 21st, 2006, 02:24 AM
Hmm... What was the question again??? :-k

Jucato
March 21st, 2006, 02:25 AM
Neither. 0's and 1's came first :p

Jedeye
March 21st, 2006, 02:25 AM
lol

endersshadow
March 21st, 2006, 04:12 AM
The creation of the language begat the compiler which begat the proggies.

Okay, I just wanted an excuse to use the word begat.

erikpiper
March 21st, 2006, 04:20 AM
Christ Yahweh

Iandefor
March 21st, 2006, 05:10 AM
One day, an engineer woke up and saw, scrawled all over his bed and his sheets and pillow, line upon line of binary code. He typed it into his computer, and, lo! The first compiler was born! The name of this mysterious engineer has been lost to the ravages of time and space, and his original compiler became the basis of all computing. yes, all computing.

This is the holy truth. I swear ;).

rharris
March 21st, 2006, 05:53 AM
ENIAC is god.............

However on the lighter side, check out the following link:

http://www.ominous-valve.com/vtsc.html

Cheers.............

Rob

BoyOfDestiny
March 21st, 2006, 08:35 AM
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. 10 – 70)

"Hero is credited with inventing many feedback control devices using water, fire and compressed air in various combinations, and the first type of analogue computer programming via intricate systems of geared spindles studded with pegs and wound with ropes connected to weights (trays of sand emptying over time) used to operate his automatic theaters that included automatic doors and multiple changing scenes of moving figures accompanied by lighting and sound effects"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

As for the chicken or the egg... The egg came first. What laid the egg? A creature resembling a chicken. What laid that one? A creature slightly less similar... What laid that... It's all about recursion. :)

EDIT: Man that's funny, wikipedia has an entry on this too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_chicken_or_the_egg

klahjn
March 21st, 2006, 08:39 AM
well to be honest, the source code, but not exactly at how you would think about it. the binary source code for the compiler sends signals to the cpu to be decoded. without that binary (source) code, the compiler would not function.

henriquemaia
March 21st, 2006, 08:40 AM
windows or wine?

BoyOfDestiny
March 21st, 2006, 08:43 AM
windows or wine?

Windows, by about 10 years.

EDIT: Unless you meant windows (as in windows) and wine as in wine...

klahjn
March 21st, 2006, 08:54 AM
Windows, by about 10 years.

EDIT: Unless you meant windows (as in windows) and wine as in wine...


I think too much wine (the drink) was what made windows (the software)

henriquemaia
March 21st, 2006, 08:55 AM
Windows, by about 10 years.

EDIT: Unless you meant windows (as in windows) and wine as in wine...

:)

Probably wine. Someone got drunk and opened a hole on the wall and called it window.

Brynster
March 21st, 2006, 10:02 AM
I think i came first?

Arktis
March 21st, 2006, 10:09 AM
This is a dumb question.

But hey, fun is fun...

Chicked or egg?

Answer: DNA

Source or compiler?

Answer:

binary.

In other words, you're asking a question that leaves out the obvious. Like: What's the sound of one hand clapping? = what happens when 1 + 1 = 2058476493?

Answer: Beer.

htinn
March 21st, 2006, 10:32 AM
The answer is obvious: Source (on punch cards written in Fortran).

Mathias-K
March 21st, 2006, 08:07 PM
The chicken or the egg?

The egg. It was laid by a fish-like creature millions of years before the chicken came into existance :)