JimBlandy

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   by JimBlandy 15y ago

   Oh, targeting a good VM is a huge win over a typical machine language for an implementer. My prediction is specifically that the inter-language paradise some expect will never come. But even within the points you bring up, I'm not sure that
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   by JimBlandy 15y ago

   At a technical level, virtual machines are not the panacea many folks seem to think. Certainly, VM byte code languages are often simpler than silicon processors' machine languages; perhaps they offer safety guarantees; and perhaps they prov
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   by JimBlandy 15y ago

   If this were our (Mozilla's) strategy, it's hard to understand why we'd release our code under an open source license, and why we'd insist on every standard we implement being freely implementable by anyone with the requisite chops. Mozilla
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   by JimBlandy 15y ago

   I've been a participant in GNU since 1990. I've been a maintainer of GNU Emacs, GDB, Guile, and (briefly) EGLIBC, but many others have contributed a lot more than I have. Mlynarik's contributions to GNU are relatively minor. Calling him a "
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   by JimBlandy 15y ago

   I don't understand why so many commenters on this thread consider verbal abuse a mark of sincerity. You can say everything you need to say without it. Mlynarik has pursued this style of interaction with people for decades, so it doesn't exp