Posted in history, software development, thoughts on March 21st, 2008 No Comments »
I was recently reading another multi-core doom and gloom article.. My daughter looks over my shoulder to ask me what I’m reading.
Me: Computers are getting faster
Daughter: Ours?
Me: No, new computers
Daughter: Oh…
The truth of the matter is that we can spend all the time we want worrying about the ‘coming software crisis’ but really the vast […]
Posted in programming, history on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
As a big fan of computer history and folklore I found this extremely interesting .
http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/altair/index2.html
“SyntaxCheck (RST 1)
Here is a truly beautiful piece of code, it’s Golden Weasel richly deserved. It’s used at run-time to check syntax in a very cool way : the byte immediately following an RST 1 instruction is not the following […]
Posted in history on April 16th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a good read for anyone interested in computer history: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
“After the TMG version of B was working, Thompson rewrote B in itself (a bootstrapping step). During development, he continually struggled against memory limitations: each language addition inflated the compiler so it could barely fit, but each rewrite taking advantage of the feature […]