From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6a3ae47e0909020958l77a8bb9r234267341b228c49@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10909020729o109b0a89j6016e6a83c23904@mail.gmail.com> <6a3ae47e0909020958l77a8bb9r234267341b228c49@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:03:12 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60909021003y7e6a4893g58fe5d2fa3e0d3b8@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd7548005552e04729b3e5e Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f5896e2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd7548005552e04729b3e5e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert Raschke wro= te: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, erik quanstrom wro= te: > >> 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. >> >> - erik >> >> > Gamers have a lot to answer for. Not just social decline ... ;-) > > Robby > Found the reference: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf --000e0cd7548005552e04729b3e5e Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert R= aschke <rtr= lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, erik quanstrom <qua= nstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
On Wed Sep =A02 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&qu= ot;

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.

- erik


Gamers have a lot to answer for. = Not just social decline ... ;-)

Robby

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