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Apple and google have both launched full blown general purpose programming languages, enough of them that I can't speak broadly about them all but they all have
by giraffe_lady 5y ago
Apple and google have both launched full blown general purpose programming languages, enough of them that I can't speak broadly about them all but they all have some degree of following and support outside those orgs.
So has MS for that matter. I don't see why supporting the compiler of a relatively niche language counts as funding and research but those things don't.
- amelius 5y agoI don't think your argument holds: if universities were to stop producing research and instead started producing code, that would raise a lot of eyebrows. MS has produced a lot of pure research. Google and Apple produce mostly code.
- giraffe_lady 5y agoI guess it depends on like "what is the output of research?" which I admit is probably hard to define and definitely not clear to me. But your comment seemed to assume "compilers are the output of research" so I went with that. I don't know anything about microsoft's research or apple's or google's either. But again I just don't understand the distinction between "research" and "code" that's being made here. There might be a useful distinction there but you're not making it.