10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
4:16 p.m.
From: Ray Arachelian
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:35 PM
On 10/10/2011 02:56 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Everything is going that way. It is a huge,
bloated,
> bandwidth-wasting, cycle-wasting mess.
I imagine that's what the operating system users
said about using a
compiler instead of coding in assembler.
Umm, compilers came long before anything that could reasonably be called
an operating system.
My first computer language was FORTRAN IV, on an IBM 1401. Very small
monitor that was part of the FORTRAN compiler separated jobs from each
other, running the compiled code for one until EOJ, then beginning the
next compile-and-execute.
I imagine that's what the static language guys
said about the dynamic
languages.
Yeah, you nailed that one...expect that the verb is "say".
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
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