Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la

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	2012-03-10 00:24 +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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