Re: "Strong typing vs. strong testing"

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Wallich
On 9/29/10 6:40 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: George Neuner writes: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:15:07 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: George Neuner writes: On 28 Sep 2010 12:42:40 GMT, Albert van der Horst wrote: I would say the dimensional checking is underrated. It must be complemented wit

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Wallich
rossb...@mpi-sws.org wrote: On Jun 8, 6:28 am, "Ken T." wrote: Let's not forget Elite for the 6502 exploiting predictable performance in order to switch graphics modes partway down the vsync! That actually didn't require predictable timing. You could tell the video chip to send you an interru

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Wallich
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:56:09 +, sln wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:11:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Warnock) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *IS* raw machine code, *NOT* assembler!! [snip] I don't see the distinction. Just dissasemble it and find out. There's