On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:15:20AM -0700, Rob Pike wrote: > Much of which is symbols. Plus, a a simple computer has gigs of memory. > > Yes, it's remarkable how much bigger programs are now than they were > 20 years ago, but 20 years ago the same things were being said. I > understand your objection - I really do - but it's time to face the > future. The smart phone in your pocket is roughly 100 times faster > than the machine Plan 9 was developed on and has 1000 times the RAM. > Computers are incredibly powerful now, and the technologies of today > can use that power well (as I claim Go does) or poorly (as some others > do), or ignore it at the risk of obsolescence. > > -rob >
Ah, yes, the old "put more ram in your macbook" argument. Some guy bought an iphone, so we should immediately throw away any computers that are not at least iphones. This saves valuable programmer time, because they don't have to optimize things instead of doing important work like providing sixteen SQL libraries. To the future! khm
