15 Mar
2004
15 Mar
'04
2:25 a.m.
>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage
Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> writes:
Vintage>
http://www.unt.edu/UNT/departments/CC/Benchmarks/benchmarks_html/sepoct95/l…
Amazing.
I suppose they'd compile by hand because compilers didn't optimize
well enough to make the code fit. But I wonder why they'd use a
language already obsolete for a decade?
I was hoping to see the story about the sign error, as described by
Dijkstra. Didn't see it. (The story is that there was a code bug in
the LM software, not found until close to the Apollo 11 flight -- they
had the sign of gravity wrong. Dijkstra mentions it in an interview,
having heard it from the one of the senior people involved in the
project. See http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/video.html)
paul