Re: Overview Of New Intel Core i7(Nehalem) Processor

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:43:48 +0100, Nobody <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:07:27 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

A language which allowed applications to be written in half the time at
the expense of requiring double the processing power would be a net win in
most cases. More generally: for time/N and CPU*N for quite a wide range of
N, IMHO.

And any Luddites wanting to run hand-crafted asm/C would still reap the
benefits of the "bloat" forcing hardware prices down.

I still do embedded stuff in assembly, but mostly because I like it. I
doubt that any other language would save me a lot of net time, because
I spend more time figuring out what to do than I spend coding.

BTW, I'm not knocking asm/C for embedded and systems programming.

I just think that the fact that C/C++ is the industry standard for writing
multi-million-lines-of-code packages is crazy.

Yes. It was an unfortunate accident.

Not necessarily a fault
on the part of a specific entity or project, just the fact that the
industry collectively hasn't managed to dig itself out of the hole.

The language and the culture are entangled. A real mess.

Maybe somebody will invent a better language and an institute to train
truly good programmers. The demand will be impressive.

John


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