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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,48942bcd105c88c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: l117593@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Cordes MJ) Subject: Re: Computer beats Kasparov Date: 1996/02/17 Message-ID: <4g4mv5$ds8@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 139802349 references: <4g29e2$ea0$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Stuart Gascoyne (100525.632@CompuServe.COM) wrote: : Whats this got to do with Ada? You ask. Well it used to be : asserted that a computer could never beat a human being at chess. : Then when that was disproved it was asserted that a computer : could never beat the best human chess players. Wrong. : Recently it was asserted in this newsgroup that a computer : (compiler) could never best a human at writing assembly language. : Even those that favoured high level languages over assembler : conceded this point. : Why can't a compiler produce better assembly language than a : human? What is so intractable about the problem of writing : assembly language that prevents it ever being computable? : And what is meant by a human assembler programmer? Is it intended : to mean a grandmaster, a good club player or even one at : schoolboy level. Or is it only the very best assembler : programmer? : Look to your laurels guys. : -- : Stuart Gascoyne : gascoyne@tartan.com Does Deep Blue come in an Ada VMS/1750A cross compilation flavor? :-) Your point is true, but if I start to look too far ahead I'll see auto code generators which write "grand master" code for compilers which write "grand master" machine code. I can see the ad now: Wanted: real-time embedded Ada programmer to work night shift at 7-11 store. Great benifits. :-) Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J Cordes Phone: (817) 935-3823 Fax: (817) 935-3800 EMail: CordesMJ@lfwc.lockheed.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------