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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by edw on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:44PM (#22292481)
The argument over whether C was fast enough to obviate the need to write in assembly raged across the pages of Dr Dobb's Journal and Byte Magazine well into the mid '80s.
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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by pjmlp on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:41PM (#22293043)
Which while true for home micros, was already a proven fact since the early 60's in the big warehouse mainframes, with the Algol derived systems programming languages.
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Re:JuliaLang: The Ingredients for a Composable Programming L... by goatlover on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:05PM (#22292680)
And that supports the argument that PL evolution is slow and unlikely to fundamentally change in 20 years time. Anyway, while people where arguing over C vs Assembly, there were Lisp and Smalltalk machines that didn't become the future.
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