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 17:58:22 +0100 Message-ID: <6a3ae47e0909020958l77a8bb9r234267341b228c49@mail.gmail.com> From: Robert Raschke To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0023545bda28b73dd004729b2ca5 Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f4f4466-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0023545bda28b73dd004729b2ca5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, 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 =E2=80=94 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 --0023545bda28b73dd004729b2ca5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wro= te:
On Wed Sep =C2=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 =E2=80=94 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 soc= ial decline ... ;-)

Robby

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