[9fans] mumbo-jumbo jibber-jabber poopycock

["Saint Sexburga" <sexburga@gmail.com>]

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> Designers work in binary gate-array state tables.
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> Not much choice until CPU go over to optical, and can *maybe* use UTF-8 directly
> as I/O in color frequency coding as well as simple on/off states.
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> Even then only at a hefty price.
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> Until then, asm's mnemonics are easier for humans to work with than octal, hex,
> or binary, and there isn't much to be done about that IF/AS/WHEN you absolutely,
> positively, *have to* get down to the lowest possible layer and find a
> binary-only animal at that layer.
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> Fortunately, that 'have to' is 'damn seldom' thanks to a wide variety of
> toolsets, and those who do it often are no more fussed about doing it than
> having a different brand of beer now and then.
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> Build a CPU that 'needs no assembler' and the first thing that happens is some
> contrarian will write one for it *anyway*. And/OR port forth to it.
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> And they will be used. But never 'forced'.
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> That because the second contrarian who arrives will port a 'C' compiler to it.
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> Any of these can be labelled ugly or inelegant - but they are the tools that get
> the job done faster than most other choices.
>
> And time - wall clock, CPU, or hours of our lives - is not just money.
>
> Time is the scarcest, and least 'renewable' resource any of us will ever have.
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> So we must adapt to what we have while we invent better machines.
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> When machines start to adapt to US, we should become very, very wary, 'coz they
> will have become smarter than we are, and they will also have become either
> certifiably insane to make the attempt or clever liars to fake it.
>
> Can't trust either of those to keep a beer keg cold...
>
> Choices, folks.  Choices!
>
> Bill
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Alas, I can make no sense of any of this. However, I suspect you are
really either Jim Choate or Mark V Shaney.

Denny Crane!!