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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> On 2/11/2011 1:42 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>>
>>> But software developers have switched to languages which
>>> they believe will improve what they produce;
>>
>> No. For example, I know a project where the developers switched
>> from Pascal to C++, because C++ was "object-oriented" and Java was
>> too slow. Productivity was so good, that the project was cancelled
>> three years later.
>
> And they switched because they believed that "object oriented"
> programming languages would help them improve what they produced.

No, they switched because it had to be "object-oriented, because that's
what modern software has to be". The old DOS-project survived years
after them. It had the advantage that it worked.

> Even Ada bowed to this paradigm, no?

I'm not against object-oriented, but I'm all with Alan Kay.

> When the world tells you what it considers important, you ignore it
> at your peril. You speak of a project that was canceled after three
> years. What of Ada itself? Hasn't it too been "canceled" by the market?

Well, it's like the old DOS-project. It just works.

> And how exactly do you believe a language goes from non-existence to
> ubiquity if the driving force is "everybody uses it"?

Good marketing and stupid people. Look at Java.


Vinzent.

-- 
You know, we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon,
and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder.
Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
    --  Rockhound, "Armageddon"