From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:19:00 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Article on 'not meant to understand this' In-Reply-To: <20170116014444.GA32261@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20170116014444.GA32261@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: Warren Toomey 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. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger: Variable 4, becoming southerly or southwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 in South Utsire and Forties. Slight or moderate, occasionally rough in north Forties. Occasional rain or drizzle. Good, occasionally poor.