Spooky Tron thoughts

So we were talking about the fact that Tron programs, canonically, have SOMETHING in their code that can apparently manifest with the appearance of a skeleton…


scene of Dumont being tortured on the MCP's wall in TRON 1982, where his skull periodicaly fades into visibilityALT


and Max brought up “skeleton code”

Skeleton programming is a style of computer programming based on simple high-level program structures and so called dummy code. Program skeletons resemble pseudocode, but allow parsing, compilation and testing of the code. Dummy code is inserted in a program skeleton to simulate processing and avoid compilation error messages. It may involve empty function declarations, or functions that return a correct result only for a simple test case where the expected response of the code is known. ALT

which suggests to me that it might be possible, in the Tron world, for a program to exist that was only skeleton code–

capable of some of the simplest, most basic responses of a program, but lacking everything that made it a complete living being, like Tron, Yori, Ram etc

basically. What if skeleton programs could be animated for an on-Grid Skeleton War.


“they can’t throw a disc, their lumbar discs are GONE” –my pattern recognizer

“lucky them” –my lower back