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> Most people in this kind of shop simply haven't heard of binary operations or malloc/free And this is how the industry reinvents the wheel every 10 years.
by goodpoint 5y ago
> Most people in this kind of shop simply haven't heard of binary operations or malloc/free
And this is how the industry reinvents the wheel every 10 years.
- sudhirj 5y agoOr how it moves forward? I also don’t know about vacuum tubes, tape drives, GOTO, soldering, capacitors, IC schematics or assembly. So Steve Woz is a role model, but today’s Woz will write Swift or Go, or god-forbid, JavaScript.
- goodpoint 5y agoYou are making a strawman. If people forget lessons from the past and redo the same mistakes over and over this is the opposite of technology moving forward. It hampers progress. This is why it's called "reinventing the wheel". Yet, if you want an extreme example here's RISC-V *currently* adding support for vector instructions. Introduced on DEC Vax in 1970 and forgotten for a good while. https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/riscv-vector-workshop-june2015.pdf https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/riscv-vector-wo...
- CRConrad 5y ago> vector instructions ... forgotten for a good while. Not quite "forgotten" all of that time, though. Didn't x86 add them around the turn of the century? And probably other CISC architectures too, now and then over the decades. It's not like they went away totally, and only popped up again right now.
- CRConrad 5y agoApparently you do "know about" all those things, at least on some level -- otherwise, how would you know to mention them?