Vuduri Programmers

As mentioned numerous times in Rome's Revolution, a "normal" Vuduri would not speak aloud. The Vuduri language is used for written items, computer interfaces and the occasional interaction with the mandasurte.

But what about computer languages? Do they use FORTRAN? Visual BASIC? Java? Or something similar but with a Vuduri flavor to it. As a programmer myself, I am very interested in this question but every time I ask them, they defer answering.

The reality is Vuduri computers such as OMCOM are not programmed in the conventional sense. When Rome was challenged to build a computer to house her Library in The Ark Lords, she claimed she could not do it without an initialization module, which is to say a bootstrap operating system.

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So there you have it. A new computer, like OMCOM, comes pre-built. It also has a code-generation module as demonstrated by OMCOM in Rome's Revolution and does not require human intervention. My father managed a stable of human programmers for much of his career. It was always his claim that someday, somebody would write a program that could generate programs and then he wouldn't need programmers any more.

Well, my Dad's vision of this brave new world is realized in the 35th century. The only sad thing is the core routines to perform this act were created by MASAL. If you've read the books, you'd know that was not a good thing. It will come back to haunt them some day. This will become abundantly clear in The Milk Run starring Aason Bierak which should be available in the spring.