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I did not know that programming had been influenced so directly by white papers, and by Dijkstra himself (even Firefox autocorrection knows him!). I had heard a
by yoha 13y ago
I did not know that programming had been influenced so directly by white papers, and by Dijkstra himself (even Firefox autocorrection knows him!). I had heard about his reaction to GOTOs but it seemed more of a rant than an actual proposal. In the case of call frame, we see that research have had a direct impact on the design of programming languages. In a way, it makes sense as researchers were the ones who programmed most, at the time.
- jmct 13y agoProgramming is still heavily influenced by research. Modern type systems, concurrent algorithms, compiler frameworks like LLVM, and lots of other great things have come straight out of academic research. I don't understand why the Hacker News community tends to downplay the effect of pure CS research and the programming ability of people in academia.
- greenyoda 13y ago"I don't understand why the Hacker News community tends to downplay the effect of pure CS research and the programming ability of people in academia." The author of this article, in fact, seems to be a rather accomplished programmer as well as an academic. Here's her "about" page: http://tagide.com/about.html http://tagide.com/about.html When I was in academia, I had the privilege of meeting some people with really impressive programming talent. And some of the pure CS research I saw had some very interesting applications, such as string matching algorithms that could be applied to DNA sequencing. (Of course, there were people who were extremely talented at bullshit too, but the quality of people varies anywhere you go.)