(1) the quality of the development environment.
my development environment is an xterm. is that a handicap?
s.
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steve uurtamo wrote:
(1) the quality of the development environment.
my development environment is an xterm. is that a handicap?
s.
No, you are in a good development environment :-)
- Don
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How about this conclusion:
We all know that the choice of language depends on what you want to do with it.
There are dynamic, well-supported but slow languages with many
libraries like Ruby or Perl, which I'd want to use for something that
doesn't need too heavy computation like GUI or web
I disagree with almost everything Donn wrote.
Thanks to Moore's law, it is somewhere between unusual and rare for
the execution speed penalty of the language to matter, and if it
matters today (some but not all languages are fast enough), it won't
matter when the program is finished.
Thought
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:47:05AM -0800, Dave Dyer wrote:
I disagree with almost everything Donn wrote.
Thanks to Moore's law, it is somewhere between unusual and rare for
the execution speed penalty of the language to matter, and if it
matters today (some but not all languages are fast
Dave,
The only thing that is fast enough is some fixed algorithm that tends
to be boring.The whole reason for Moore's Law is that few people
think their computers are fast enough.They will NEVER be fast enough
and we will always want our computers to be faster because they clearly
can do
Do you believe GO is not NP
hard or that there is some intrinsic reason that a properly programmed
computer would not benefit from more resources?
You missed my point completely. As a programmer with finite
resources, especially time, if I spend a year squeezing extra
performance out of a
On Nov 21, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Don Dailey wrote:
However, for me the coding time is very small even though the
development time is large. I spend more time thinking about the
program than coding it, and I spend a great deal of time waiting
on the
computer, because I have no clue what will
On Nov 21, 2007 7:06 PM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You see to have very old-fashioned ideas about the whole programming
philosophy.You take the view that a project like go is a fixed
static task and that you must optimize the programmers time in typing
in code. And then you
