Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1663

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:29:52 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Beth

I'd agree if you added ^ too

Implementing these new technologies requires such thinking.

Programming skills do not need much updating: but language skills, tools, etc. do on a regular basis. There are many "experienced" people who have just done the same work year after year, so may actually only have a few "years" experience on a single (or few) platform(s).

Religious wars in computing as in reality have little prospect of resolution. You have to listen to the other side to try and understand their point of view and find out if they are making any real point or just spouting opinions, and try to do the same yourself. The parade of fashionable "silver bullets" over the last forty odd years has been endless, and many have been discarded abruptly when sonething else became fashionable.

Thinking of such things can not be dangerous, you can never question your buttumptions too much, as those buttumptions are likely to be where the issues and the problems lie. These claims have been made before and never came to pbutt because of other problems with the technologies used. Some good aspects of the technologies may have been retained but often in this business, the baby is thrown out with the bathwater.

We have certainly pbutted thru the CPU bound era, to the memory bound era, to the address space bound era, and now into the memory access bound era, where our buttumptions about what may affect feasibility and performance have to change; but the best written code has always to be that which makes the fewest buttumptions and has the most appropriate design.

-- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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