Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes

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

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> Caveat: I am not saying that you never have to be concerned about CPU
budgets
> in certain applications. But in the run-of-the-mill PC desktop case, it
often
> is the least of your concern outside of semi-realtime media based
programming.
>
All engineering is about tradeoffs. Agonizing over CPU cycles is
occasionally important, but usually not. Spending time optimizing CPU cycles
at the expense of optimizing other things when you've got more than enough
CPU cycles to do the job is not focusing on the mission. It can be
entertaining, but it doesn't move the mission forward. It can even be moving
the mission backward. Its important to remember that when selecting the
tools to do a job - hence my preference for Ada in most cases. It makes good
tradeoffs between speed, safety, reliability, ease of implementation, etc.

MDC
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