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The types of programming language semantics, according to CTM…
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Neither programmers nor users are able to purchase a modern computer which behaves sanely - at any price. We have allowed what could have once become the most unbridled creative endeavor known to man…
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… a trivial (in retrospect) method for entirely relieving compilers of the burden of stack discipline: a necessary first step towards relieving programmers of the burden of compilers. A systems progra…
ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
Robosaurs…
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For concerned locals, the shuttles symbolize their collective fears about the rise of the tech sector… That proverbial horse left the barn a loooong time ago. San Franciscans against the Google buses…
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I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there…
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The “debate” had an interlude, in which Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happ…
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We are in a similar situation. Over there’s the Paradise of Engineering. Whether it’s Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, by and large those engineers are successful in delivering safe and satisf…
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Only in the mid-nineties when the number of transistors on a single chip ceased to be the true bottleneck, the “von Neumann bottleneck” may have ceased to be the optimal solution. For the first time a…
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Back to the question: who invented the computer, Eckert and Mauchly or von Neumann? From the above it is clear that the credit must go to whoever connected the inventions of Turing and McCulloch-Pitts…
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I’m going to call this “Norvig’s Commandment” (from this speech): So be happy and productive, don’t be evil, and be glad of an opportunity to serve others.…