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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2353cc2ebdf8fc4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-04 17:39:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr14.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.175.242.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr14.news.prodigy.com 1015292314 ST000 64.175.242.193 (Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:38:34 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:38:34 EST Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: S[O[SX[DGJVOBFD[LZKJOPHAWB\^PBQLGPQRZ_MHEQR@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 01:38:34 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20796 Date: 2002-03-05T01:38:34+00:00 List-Id: > "All of my programs are so small and so fast because I write only in the > one, true, computer language: Assembly Language. In this day of massive APIs and no access to the hardware, I wonder how much of his programs' time is spent in his careful asm code, vs in the OS somewhere. OTOH, maybe he's onto something, marketing-wise. --------------- *real* programmers know the cycle time of each instruction.