From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2353cc2ebdf8fc4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-06 02:42:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 10:25:29 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3C85EE99.CDBCA9D6@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3C84057E.8020504@users.sf.net> <3C8503D9.30209@users.sf.net> <3C85AA9A.7050201@users.sf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1015410357 18625 193.62.183.204 (6 Mar 2002 10:25:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 10:25:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20853 Date: 2002-03-06T10:25:57+00:00 List-Id: 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... ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------