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Re:C++11 and Ada 2012 - renaissance of native languages? by shrughes on Sunday June 24, 2012 @05:35AM (#4153003)
> Once you know which programming patterns humans best deal with, you can optimize the implementation stack all the way to the Nand gates.

This is a complete hand-waving fantasy.

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Re:C++11 and Ada 2012 - renaissance of native languages? by gaius on Sunday June 24, 2012 @06:14AM (#4153048)
Not at all. You only need to look at even simple CPU specs like number and type of registers to see this kind of thinking in action, and this has been going on for a long time.
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