26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
8:42 a.m.
Ha. Way to be completely unreasonable. :P
Chris.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:33:55AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Chris McCormick wrote:
I find the argument "this technique is used in a large scale open source project so it must be good" quite flaccid myself. Who knows how compilers, hardware, etc. will change in the future? Don't you think it's better to keep it as portable as possible?
pick your poison:
- JAVA VM on a chip
- 36-bit LISP machine
- Scheme compiled to VHDL then to reconfigurable logic gates
- Turing machine with a high-density rewritable laser tape
- Quantum computer programmed in Perl
- Trinary computer
- Babbage's Analytic Machine using carbon nanogears
- Hydraulic abacus
- Paper and pencil
- Transhumanity / Extropism / Staring into the singularity
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju
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