RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong
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API's made by the superintelligent creators of this universe? Personally, no.
Actually, what I had in mind was Microsoft - though their products don't pass the "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" test. Opacity and incomprehensibility (the spell checker did what?) is within their grasp...
Worse: APIs grown by evolution. Evolution makes the worst BASIC spaghetti coder you ever heard of look like Don Knuth by comparison.