21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
4:53 p.m.
> Which harkens back to the NEED to have any
"optimization" include a way to
> explicitly over-ride or lockout that aptimizing, when the programmer deems
> it to be inappropriate.
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
How many of today's "glue black boxes
together" programmers would
even KNOW when it's appropriate, though? That's the scary part.
"IF the users report enough bugs in the software, then we'll have somebody
lookinto it."
We got to the moon in 1969...no telling whether or
not we'll be able
to get there again, with programmers being the way they are now. :-(
Maybe we can hitch a ride with the Chinese.
Hmmm.
We won't resume out presence in space until we devise PRNDL controls and
resume making PDP11/70 supercomputers. Besides, how much money would we
make going to the moon? Why would anybody want to GO there? - you can
see pictures of it in Wikipedia.
Hmmmm. How much would a moon Hasselblad fetch on eBay?