Re: The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?)

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Subject	Re: The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?)
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Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Date	2011-10-08 17:26 +0000
Message-ID	<2011Oct8.192642@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)

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"Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> writes:
>I differ (I don't beg (or at least am not good at begging)):
>I think the arrival, finally, of
>(I never know what to call them)
>dynamic/interpretive/whatever
>languages like Javascript and Java
>and open/CL and ...
>has opened a window for other architectures.

One might think so.  One might also think that the high portability of
free software opens a window for other architectures there, too.  But
in practice OSs and applications are not the only factor.  There are
many components involved, and the network effect favours dominant
things everywhere, so IA-32 and AMD64 are very dominant in the Linux
world, too.  And therefore, I doubt that architecture-neutral code
distribution formats like .class or .js files will make much of a
difference.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl                    Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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  Re: Q: bit shifting MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-10-07 12:49 -0700
    Re: Q: bit shifting nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-10-07 21:20 +0100
    The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?) "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-10-07 19:48 -0700
      Re: The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?) Mark Thorson <nospam@sonic.net> - 2011-10-07 19:56 -0800
      Re: The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?) "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2011-10-08 04:53 +0200
      Re: The word is devolving into 3 architectures (NOT?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-10-08 17:26 +0000
    Re: Q: bit shifting Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-10-08 10:47 +0200
      Re: Q: bit shifting MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-10-08 12:27 -0700
        Re: Q: bit shifting Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-10-09 08:07 +0200
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                Re: Q: bit shifting timcaffrey@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) - 2011-10-10 20:27 +0000
                Re: Q: bit shifting Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-10-10 23:45 +0200
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        Re: Q: bit shifting anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-10-09 12:24 +0000
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