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I'd recommend reading her interview in Coders At Work. I never realized that compilers were already a flourishing field by the time C came around, and that C ac
by hardwaregeek 6y ago
I'd recommend reading her interview in Coders At Work. I never realized that compilers were already a flourishing field by the time C came around, and that C actually ended up having some negative effects in compiler dev.
- wglb 6y agoIt was more that C hindered optimization research. The interview was awesome as you said.
- sitkack 6y agoC and Unix hindered a whole lot. It was the PHP of its day.
- martinlaz 6y agoNice analogy. Although it's very unlikely that PHP will ever be as highly regarded as are C and Unix today.
- tomsmeding 6y agoI wanted to say that C is not really very highly regarded nowadays, but that only adds extra php-directed snark to your post, which is not wholly a bad thing.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoHave you used modern PHP? Its a great language these days.
- wglb 6y agoI am struggling to understand your analogy here?
- anitil 6y agoOrdered the book, but would you be willing to go in to the issues around C while I wait for it to arrive?
- wglb 6y agoI don't have the book in my office, but essentially "In our conversation she talks about what that transition was like as well as why it is important to increase the diversity in the field and how C has grievously wounded the study of computer science."
- gavreh 6y agoLooks like a great book, will read - thanks for the recommendation.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoHow did C have negative effects on compiler dev? Did everyone else get a lobotomy, and forget how to do what they already knew?
- wglb 6y agoIt was more that C hindered optimization research.