Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:52:00 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> On 5/18/2012 3:35 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>>> This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years
>>> of computer science and programming languages research, the world has
>>> decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
>>
>> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
>> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats always
>> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.
>>
> 
> That is funny you said that. I was just now thinking the same
> thing as I was looking at a web site that tells which browsers
> supports which feature of HTML5 and Javascript.
> 
> The reason is, I remember doing the same thing many many
> years ago, when I was just learning the new Java and looking
> to see which operating system supports which features of Java
> and such.
> 
> So, the picture has changed from
> 
>       app         app
>    +----------+-----------+......
>    | Java VM  |  Java VM  |
>    +----------+-----------+.....
>    |  OS      |   OS      |
>    +----------+-----------+.....
> 
> To now, almost 20 years later to become
> 
>       HTML5/JS app   HTML5/JS app
>    +--------------+--------------+.....
>    |  browser 1   |  browser 2   |
>    +--------------+--------------+.....
>    |   OS         |    OS        |
>    +--------------+--------------+.....
> 
> Well, it is progress I guess. The Java VM was replaced by
> the browser, and Java is replaced by HTML/Javascript.
> 
> I can't wait to see what the picture will be 20 years from now :)

         App (distributed)
   +------+------+
   |      OS (distributed)
   +------+------+

Layers above OS were only necessary because of retarded OSes like UNIX and
Windows. They sealed the toilet's pit. Alas, being not much more hygienic
(I would say most of them were actually much worse) they required another
layers above them, and so on.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de