21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
4:30 p.m.
On 10/21/2011 03:38 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
How many of today's "glue black boxes together" programmers would
even KNOW when it's appropriate, though? That's the scary part.
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.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
My beef with some compiler writers is that
they'll often do you a
favor by silently rearranging expressions to make use of distributive
or associative properties and that series that *used* converge neatly
now no longer does.
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.