07-30-2013, 06:27 PM
Sera explained more about the 'Techs' but each explanation formed new questions in Grace's mind, and Sera wasn't the one to answer them. Her gaze wandered the stacks, then. "Maybe these books hold some answers then, you think?"
She lost herself in the reading of titles, some in languages she didn't know, none of which sounded promising, until her yelled name caught her attention.
The book Hawksley found was old, no, ancient in programming terms. Grace was a little crestfallen at the mention it was from the 70's. Why keep it, save for nostalgia? He was right, the newer stuff wouldn't be in dead-tree format. But his enthusiasm was infectious, and the thought of notes in the margins was quite intriguing.
She stopped pawing her way through the section she was at, and bounded over to the way back, to peer at the found programming manual from behind.
And her eyes went wide.
Of course, a manual like this would be mostly math. It would be made to last, in a language that never ages. She was expecting COBOL, and was getting so much more.
Hell, the diagrams of data entropy that Hawksley was just thumbing past like they were nothing...
"Hey, wait, hold on, go back, you're hogging it!"
She lost herself in the reading of titles, some in languages she didn't know, none of which sounded promising, until her yelled name caught her attention.
The book Hawksley found was old, no, ancient in programming terms. Grace was a little crestfallen at the mention it was from the 70's. Why keep it, save for nostalgia? He was right, the newer stuff wouldn't be in dead-tree format. But his enthusiasm was infectious, and the thought of notes in the margins was quite intriguing.
She stopped pawing her way through the section she was at, and bounded over to the way back, to peer at the found programming manual from behind.
And her eyes went wide.
Of course, a manual like this would be mostly math. It would be made to last, in a language that never ages. She was expecting COBOL, and was getting so much more.
Hell, the diagrams of data entropy that Hawksley was just thumbing past like they were nothing...
"Hey, wait, hold on, go back, you're hogging it!"