On 10/15/2011 2:55 AM, Alfredo Covale da wrote:
If today's software were Fortran descendant, software were better?
It would probably be faster. Fortran call arguments can't alias, which
means a compiler is far less constrained in changing the order of
operations (e.g. running work in parallel
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood
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You are joking. Aren't you? That's not the sense, I think that you are not
pointing to where article is doing. With fair reasons many people is making
e
You are joking. Aren't you? That's not the sense, I think that you are not
pointing to where article is doing. With fair reasons many people is making
eulogies to something that transcended. Dennis Ritchie let a legacy which is
impossible to deny. Today's software is not Fortran descendant is C
How did Dennis Ritchie's death make C a wonderful language?
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Nice article
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/
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