From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df10909020729o109b0a89j6016e6a83c23904@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:56:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60909020956h5f65c4p99aab867f6437d30@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd4a5ccc6d00704729b254f Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f466620-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd4a5ccc6d00704729b254f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, erik quanstrom wrote= : > On Wed Sep 2 10:33:07 EDT 2009, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: > > Q: "Will C continue to be important into the future?" > > (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: "No, I think C will die like Fortran has" > > isn't this the same company that claims that the cpu is dead? > it may be true, but given nvidia's propensity to make > claims that stretch credulity a wee bit that all just so happen > to lead one to the conclusion =97 that nvidia will dominate the > computer world in the near future with massive gpus, directx, > and a tiny cpu. > I know people claiming the GPU is dead. (The folks who make the Unreal gaming engine to start). > > - erik > > --000e0cd4a5ccc6d00704729b254f Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, erik qua= nstrom <quans= tro@quanstro.net> wrote:
On Wed Sep =A02 10:33:07 EDT 2009, rm= innich@gmail.com wrote:
> Q: "Will C continue to be important into the future?"
> (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: "No, I think C will die l= ike Fortran has"

isn't this the same company that claims that the cpu is dead?
it may be true, but given nvidia's propensity to make
claims that stretch credulity a wee bit that all just so happen
to lead one to the conclusion =97 that nvidia will dominate the
computer world in the near future with massive gpus, directx,
and a tiny cpu.

I know people claiming = the GPU is dead. =A0(The folks who make the Unreal gaming engine to start).=
=A0

- erik


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