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My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992 (blog.plover.com)
photios 27 minutes ago [-]
> Now a question: Since we're obviously thousands of times better at producing compilers than we were fifteen years ago, so much so that a single undergraduate can write a passable one in four months, why hasn't IBM invested millions of dollars and hundreds of programmer-years to produce a super FORTRAN I compiler that's thousands of times better than the FORTRAN H compiler?

s/FORTRAN I/Mythos/ for the 2026 version of this.

uberex 12 minutes ago [-]
Beautifully written. Was this a note to self. If so amazing.
baddash 46 minutes ago [-]
what do you think of it?
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