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Yes and no. The difference with computing the design of the physical hardware influences the design of the programs that are written for it. If the astronomy an
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
Yes and no. The difference with computing the design of the physical hardware influences the design of the programs that are written for it. If the astronomy analogy fully applied then the design of the telescope would influence the design of the universe.
- d0mine 10y agoTelescopes influence what you can see they do not influence the stars.
- gravypod 10y agoComputer design can't influance what you see but what you can implement. If computers still only had 512bytes of memory we'd be writing programs different then today making a trade off of computation speed for ram size. If CPUs didn't have pipelines then parallelized algorithms wouldn't be as important and I feel that mutli-CPU machines would have taken off to make room for other forms of parallelization. As the GP says, Galileo's telescope didn't make the universe smaller or larger, it just let him see things in that universe. Nothing changed but what he was holding.
- d0mine 10y agoYou are missing the point. No doubt the Hubble telescope shows much more than what Galileo had available in XVII century. New instruments enables discovery. But the science is not about the instruments.