Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

There are occasionally true innovations. The GUI interface was once an
innovation over the Glass Teletype and its descendents (and certainly there
is debate over who was first to have one) but was the Windows GUI or the Mac
GUI somehow something fundamentally new and innovative once PARC had started
it off? If you listen to the marketing weenies, you'd believe that Windows
was something never before seen on this planet. You'd also believe that Bill
Gates invented the Operating System, Dr. Evil invented the "Death Star" and
Al Gore invented the Internet.

I think Computer Science would be better off without the hype. Let's be
honest and say "I started with concept X and evolved it to include these new
and interesting capabilities" rather than "I invented Concept X in a
blinding fit of brilliance and the world will never be the same!"

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"Florian Weimer" <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> wrote in message
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> Gosling himself probably used p-code in Gosling Emacs ...