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The US got the better rocket scientists/engineers, the USSR got the better nuclear engineers. In particular, they got better centrifuge experts. The better ce
by peterfirefly 11y ago
The US got the better rocket scientists/engineers, the USSR got the better nuclear engineers. In particular, they got better centrifuge experts. The better centrifuges are the reason why the USSR could build their bombs so quickly and so much cheaper than the first US bombs.
PS: would you consider releasing the source code of one of your very early compilers at some point?
- WalterBright 11y agoI would, except I'm a little embarrassed by the quality of the code :-) I've learned a heluva lot in 40 years of programming.
- peterfirefly 11y agoIt's probably not so bad. I recently found some code that was 25 years old. It was actually pretty decent, though of course not quite as clean as what I would write today. It basically did bit-banging across a COM-port using TxD/RxD + several control lines in order to talk to an external memory card (across a level-converter). It contained two control loops two autoregulate the speed across many different PCs, work nice with Windows, etc. It autodetected first the COM-ports and then whether there was a card reader connected to it, while talking care to work well with serial mice. All this before I knew what control theory was (or even just the name!). Still, it wasn't bad code at all. Your code solved much harder problems so I would assume you were a better programmer then than I was, having only written small toy compilers. I can't imagine the objective quality of your old code to be bad in any reasonable way, even if you know you can do better now.