----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: David Brown Gesendet am: 11 Okt 2010 13:32:16
>> Hmmm, I dimly remember having that sort of compiler once on the C64, >> called 'the last one'. It had an UI where you entered the flowchart >> and then the calculations and output masks and it produced a basic >> program that did exactly what you described. Without need of writing >> a single line of code. Well, that was some 20 years ago on a 64k ram > I remember there was a craze for "program generator programs" in those > days. People were predicting the end of the software developer, because > programs would write themselves. Well, the output of this program wasn't much different in its visual uniformity than the many programs released by a company named 'Data Becker' which first produced many C64 books and then a lot of software 'Datamat', 'Kontomat', '*mat'. They all looked almost identical and could have very well made by such a program generator. (They were still expensive) > It went the same way as many other > such ideas (fuzzy logic, neural networks, DNA computers, quantum > computers, etc.) - it found an occasional niche use, and died away from > mainstream attention pretty quickly. Personally, I find that Fuzzy logic should be tought every programmer - the basic idea us very usefule for many algorithms. Especially those which create strange results when fed with parameters at the edge of the input range. DNA and quantum computers are still far from being useful for outside lab use. And neuronal networks, well, they have their use in specialized DSP algorithms. > You can be confident there will > still be jobs for C programmers in 20 years time... There were still jobs for Cobol programmers in 2000 (but not for long after and not before) :) >> 1MHz system. Sometimes I don't wonder anymore that the Romans had >> brain surgery and the old Egypts probably have had batteries. > I don't know about the Romans, but the Mayans (or was it the Incas or > Aztecs?) certainly did brain surgery. For healing purposes or for ceremonial jobs? The Romans did for healing (from simple pressure relief to lobotomy). Of course, many patents died from infections, but some survived :) But that's really going off-topic now. JMGross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
