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-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129888684.681335.230450@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1130049078.633311.55000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1130103703.328431.309430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1130103703.328431.309430@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:14:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.210.236 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1130123694 67.3.210.236 (Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:14:54 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:14:54 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5901 Date: 2005-10-24T03:14:54+00:00 List-Id: Steve Whalen wrote: > Quite right. I was trying to keep a post that was already too long from > getting longer. Obviously I meant that we are seeing a rate of growth > in computing performance that when plotted on an exponential graph, is > not a straight line, but an accelerating curve. I guess I misread it. > Since you chose to pick on my "linear increase", I take it you disagree > with my basic premise that we will have stunningly powerful and > inexpensive computers available 50 to 100 years from now? Not at all. With nanotechnology we should have something the same volume as a sheet of bond paper that contains billions of simple processors. The main issue is that we'll be dealing in massive parallelism, so we need people comfortable with it, and a language with safe, high-level concurrency features. -- Jeff Carter "I spun around, and there I was, face to face with a six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass." Blazing Saddles 40