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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: Dylan Implementations
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 04:12:55 GMT
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Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:

> when people make a career out of elementary skills and of doing basic stuff
> over and over again millions of times throughout the industry, when there
> are available alternatives (and this is the key), my sympathy turns to
> disgust at how little we have learned and progressed.
> 

Howdy,
        Had just such a bone jarring intuition a few days
ago. Felt like dropping my CPU out the window and going to
law school ;-)
        It strikes me that these computing devices are
_very_ primitive, in spite of recent advances. Less than
a decade ago a box with a can opener class CPU was the
foundation of the "PC Revolution". No chance of fitting
a 256 color image of any decent size in core. Give me a
break! And folks are still buying machines with no FPU's.
Gadzooks - why not just buy a piece of paper tape and 
build a Turing machine.
        Of course, for a CPU that adds/subtracts/compares/
fetches/stores -- the language of choice is one that 
adds/subtracts/compares/fetches/stores. Indeed, we have
made very little progress ;-(

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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