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Ultimately, the author comes to a dubious conclusion by ignoring the context. By studying what people were writing about in the 70s, he also ignores the context
by david2ndaccount 4y ago
Ultimately, the author comes to a dubious conclusion by ignoring the context. By studying what people were writing about in the 70s, he also ignores the context - it was a given that any program of significant size or of a fundamental nature would compile (efficiently) to machine code. The hardware was too weak to support anything else. A language that didn’t satisfy certain performance criteria wouldn’t even be a contender.
- vitiral 4y agoHis odd conclusion being that ML languages like Haskell are "systems programming." I thought the rest of the article was mostly interesting, but how that could possibly be your conclusion is a bizzare mystery. My guess is he wrote the conclusion before the research and got the cart before the horse.