From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Article on 'not meant to understand this'
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:19:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1701161116110.7102@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116014444.GA32261@minnie.tuhs.org>
Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> http://thenewstack.io/not-expected-understand-explainer/
Rob Pike observed on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820777895689732096
> The article misses an important fact: A few years later we understood it
> well and could do it much simpler.
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820777988924981254
> We are always learning, and that comment was as much a note to the
> author as to the reader. Now, stack switching is almost trivial.
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820778110253613056
> A similar thing happened a generation earlier figuring out subroutine
> (function) calls. Whole books were written. Now it's an instruction.
Tony.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 1:44 Warren Toomey
2017-01-16 3:15 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 10:11 ` Brantley Coile
2017-01-16 17:49 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 11:19 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2017-01-16 11:26 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-01-16 15:35 ` Random832
2017-01-16 17:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-16 19:10 Steve Johnson
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