On 11 Jul 2007, at 8:02 am, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
On 10/07/07, Alex Queiroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:20 years from now people will still be saying this...I highly doubt that. For two reasons: 1. People can only cling to unproductive and clumsy tools for so long (we don't write much assembly any more...). Capitalism works to ensure this; people who are willing to switch to more efficient tools will put the rest out of business (if they really are more efficient).
We are still seeing terabytes of assembly code written; it is just being written by compilers. As for me, I still sometimes write Fortran. (Mind you, F95 is not your grandfather's Fortran. But it does still beat the pants off C.) People have been predicting the death of Fortran for a long time.
2. The many-core revolution that's on the horizon.
You cannot have played with Cilk if you think that will kill C. Actually, it's not on the horizon. The revolution has happened. Some people have seen the flash; others haven't heard the bang yet. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
