On Feb 15, 2:23 pm, Sebastien Lelong <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interestingly this "1976 design" still seems to work, and at the heart of > all linux distros for instance. If you look at Java side, you'll see Ant or > Maven. Are these representative of modern design ? Try doing realtime or verified designs on Java or Linux or OS X or Windows. Looks like building tools > go with their language (easy_install/egg for python, rake for ruby, etc... > should we have to build "jake" for jal ?...). > Indeed. > > > > I wonder if there were cross-platform stuffs in 1976... I mean, how being > cross-platform could make us stay in 1976 ? I'm lost... C was invented as a Cross platform high level Assembler so as to make porting UNIX easy. > > There could be 95/5% in general, but it might not be the same with > jalv2/jallib (I don't have the figure though). > > Finally, this is about cross-platform, but, as far as I'm concerned, this is > also about extending features through plugin. Plugin: a modern concept :) > > > > > P.S. I really did start programming in 1967 (after school) and in 1974 > > was allowed to punch my own cards. > > Any photos ? :) > > Cheers, > Seb The previous was a somewhat extreme post in reaction, to be taken lightly. I have no photos of me doing stuff long ago. I still have prototype of my 100mm x 160mm Z80 single board controller I made in 1980. I did have an Apple II (UCSD p & Apple), Sirus 9000 (x86, CP/M86 and MSDOS), SC/MP board and CP/M computer with 8" drives back in 1980 ..1982. I did use one of these http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/roger.broughton/museum/iomedia/images/pc4.jpg as well as one with knob with all 96? or 64? characters! It was for an ICL system running George. Windows, Linux and OS X are dead ends. Vista was the event horizon for Windows and Linux has about reached NT4.0/XP. It runs the danger of bloat from now on. Computer Science, Multi CPU programming, Architecture & OS and languages has largely stalled. The last innovations where ARM, Occam, Transputer and VMS. Stuff just is cheaper with more storage and more speed in the last 10 years. We do need efficient, cross platform, reliable tools. But assuming these MUST work with entirely with a console is unwarranted. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
