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| From | "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la |
| Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:24:22 +0000 |
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John, > [I'm not sure a software monoculture is an innovation, much less > an interesting one. IBM faced antitrust suits in the 1960s and 70s A language monoculture has benefits. Greater people portability for one. Fewer compilers needed (ok, this group's readers don't consider that a benefit :-) Everybody doing things the same way can also reduce faults. The following experiment found a correlation between percentage source code occurrences and developer knowledge of binary operator precedence. http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu06.html > in both the US and Europe because their mainframes and OS/360 were > so dominant. And as far as who copies Fortran syntax, every time > you write a=b+c or if(a>b)c=d, or function foo(x,y), you're > writing in Fortran. -John] R copied Fortran syntax. But that has been around for a while. [R? -John]
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Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la SLK Systems <slkpg3@gmail.com> - 2012-03-09 14:36 -0500
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 00:24 +0000
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-03-10 15:06 +0100
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-12 05:49 +0000
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-03-13 00:10 +0100
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@2ndquadrant.com> - 2012-06-07 18:15 +0000
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-06-10 01:12 +0200
Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> - 2012-03-14 02:02 +0000
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