From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:25:29 +0000
Date: 2002-03-06T10:25:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C85EE99.CDBCA9D6@brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C85AA9A.7050201@users.sf.net
Dave Poirier wrote:
>
> I think there is really only one thing that could explain why I value
> more assembler than other languages, it's that I probably value more the
> time the machine spend executing the code than the time the human
> spend writing the code.
Oh, I value *my* time more highly than any mere processor -- an hour
of my time is worth much more than a few nanoseconds of my processor's.
However, I'm happy to value the time "the human" spends writing the
code more cheaply, just as long as I'm not the human in question...
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-04 22:17 [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes Jano
2002-03-04 23:38 ` Dave Poirier
2002-03-05 17:03 ` Pascal Obry
2002-03-05 17:43 ` Dave Poirier
2002-03-05 18:29 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-06 5:35 ` Dave Poirier
2002-03-06 10:25 ` John English [this message]
2002-03-06 14:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-06 14:46 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-06 17:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-06 17:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-06 18:27 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-05 23:20 ` David Starner
2002-03-06 14:27 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-05 17:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-05 17:53 ` Dave Poirier
2002-03-05 19:33 ` Darren New
2002-03-04 23:47 ` [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languages Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-05 1:43 ` Richard Riehle
2002-03-05 17:25 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-03-05 21:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-05 21:43 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-05 21:31 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-04 23:49 ` [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes Darren New
2002-03-04 23:59 ` Al Mole
2002-03-05 1:38 ` tmoran
2002-03-05 8:58 ` Thomas Koenig
2002-03-05 2:18 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-03-05 3:12 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-05 15:24 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-05 18:08 ` chris.danx
2002-03-05 21:35 ` sk
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