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- From: jimr@col.hp.com (Jim Rogers)
- Subject: Re: Scientists as Programmers (was Re: Small Language Wanted)
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.142233.3265@col.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:22:33 GMT
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- jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- > Not every language is appropriate for every job, which is what I
- > think people told you last time this came up. If there are specific problems,
- > give examples. Also, I suspect that a large part of it is that (not
- > suprisingly) scientists don't want to learn N languages, they want a kitchen-
- > sink that does it all, AND they want it to be simple, AND they want it to
- > generate the tightest code theoretically possible. This is like the old
- > cliche: fast, small, soon, pick any 2. Those requirements are pretty close
- > to contradictory (certainly wanting all of them will greatly increase to
- > cost to produce any such compiler, if it can be done at all).
- >
- Since we are speaking to Physicists we might remind them that the
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle applies to language design as well as other
- facets of reality.
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- Jim Rogers
- Hewlett-Packard Company
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