Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf]

Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by godmodus on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:05AM (#13212262)

If it's written spartan style, yes. If you go nuts with its dark corners things do get wierd. It's why it's a hard labour to write safely - and a contributing reason to JVM success.

It's the mother of all, and abusing it in ways that make it unpredictable is more than likely.

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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by kahnpro on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:30PM (#13214276)

If you have to add that qualifier, then is it really a predictable like language?

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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by godmodus on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:32PM (#13214752)

I don't see a problem with proper use of qualifiers.

It has to be said that I'm a "right tool for the job" kind of man, and spend less time worrying about the perfect-ness of a language. Can't think of a better language to write crypto/network routing code with. Though a colleague did implement some mDNS craziness with java.

Don't shoot me. Heh.

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