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Niklaus Wirth: A Plea for Lean Software

Geoman
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Wrote the following at Dec. 15, 2012, 1:24 p.m...

An interesting essay about computing efficiency.

http://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

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PymbleSoftware
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Wrote the following at Dec. 15, 2012, 1:26 p.m...

Geoman wrote:

An interesting essay about computing efficiency.

http://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

Ah, Wirth, favorite quote:
Europeans call him by name, Americans call him by value ;-)

That is an old paper from 1995. I could never get Oberon, to work properly or do anything useful with it.

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Wrote the following at Dec. 16, 2012, 9:09 a.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote:

...could never get Oberon, to work properly or do anything useful with it.

Still too busy trying to score off of Titania perhaps?

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skywriter
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Wrote the following at Dec. 16, 2012, 4:37 p.m...

I liked Wirths work. I learn modula-3 back when I cared about learning as many languages as I could find. Also used with Oberon with the Xilinx 6200 fpgas was back when Xilinx was an important technology.

He's clearly right about all the processor cycles wasted on unused software features. Talk about green thinking.

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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Dec. 17, 2012, 9:40 a.m...

No one's ever been first to market by taking the time to do it right though...

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R-ten-K
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Wrote the following at Dec. 17, 2012, 11:14 a.m...

Shouldn't this thread be in the general discussion subsection?

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Dec. 17, 2012, 8:20 p.m...

R-ten-K wrote:

Shouldn't this thread be in the general discussion subsection?

I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running baaack ...

vishnu
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Wrote the following at Dec. 17, 2012, 9:49 p.m...

hamei wrote:

R-ten-K wrote:

Shouldn't this thread be in the general discussion subsection?

I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running baaack ...

Perhaps Wirth had some interaction with SGI when he was at Xerox PARC in 1984 and 85, that would give it a topical slant... :mrgreen:

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