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New Intermediate Language Proposed

Posted by michael on from the real-men-write-in-assembly dept.

WillOutPower writes "Sun is inviting Cray (of supercomputer fame) and IBM (needs no introduction...) to join and create a new intermediate run-time language for high-performance computing. Java's bytecode, Java Grande, and Microsoft's IL language for the Common Language Runtime, it seems a natural progression. I wonder if the format will be in XML? Does this mean ubiquitous grid computing? Maybe now I won't have to write my neural network in C for performance :-)"

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  1. Challenge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The GNAA (Gay Nigger Association of America) hereby challenges Trollkore
    and the CLIT to an FP battle on slashdot, the 29th of december 2003.
    The battle will rage from 00.00 to 23.59 GMT. The group with the most FP's WIN!!
    No scripts allowed!

  2. Zhavaa grond? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nee Paa Zhaava Dreenk!

  3. WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find this VERY interesting. As you will notice, all stories on the front page are posted by michael, the worst slashdot editor. As you will also notice, ALL stories are posted at multiples of quarter-hours (eg. x:00, x:15, x:30, x:45). This leads me to suspect that michael is in fact NOT at his computer, but a bot he set up is posting weighted stories to the front page at intervals of 15 mins. Otherwise micheal would have to have been awake from 2:00 AM to 5:30 PM! (Though there are a few 3 hour intervals for naps, I am skeptical). OSDN should really think about bringing in a consultant to see how much dead weight they can drop. Here's a hint: michael and cowboy neal are expendable. Seriously, does cowboy neal do ANYTHING other than appear as the last option in polls? And it goes without saying that everyone hates michael.

    We should petition OSDN to get that fucktard michael off the payroll.

    1. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The slashcode system I worked with allowed you to promote stories to front page using a future date/time. Micheal can do a whole day of his usual half-assed job ahead of time without needing to be in front of a computer.

    2. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So basically his work today consisted of clicking "PUBLISH AT A LATER TIME" boxes for about 10 stories and adding insightful comments like "We've reported on this before." to a couple of them. That must have taken, what, 15 minutes? w00t, the rest of the day off to play Counter-Strike and masturbate to porn_for_lynx.html! Yayayayayayay

    3. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      is michael a human?

    4. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A bot could probably avoid posting dupes!

    5. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Micheal: The ultimate trolling bot? And he/it needs a salary. Someone has created a monster.

      This means CowboyNeal must be the failed experiment. He can't touch Micheal's trolling, but he still needs a salary.

    6. Re:WTF MICHAEL IS A BOT??? by duckpoopy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Do you really think michael is worse than timothy?

      --
      word.
  4. Mod parent up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Beautiful.

    michael@slashdot:~$ while true; do sleep 15m; submit-slashdot-story.sh; done&
    [1] 3242
    michael@slashdot:~$ lynx http://www.goatse.cx/porn_for_lynx.html

  5. Re:why linux sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have to agree. I think that Windows ME is he best OS ever. Linux people like to take it in the ass.

  6. Re:Next try? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you were talking about .NET, every one of those URLs would be at [microsoft.com]. Now you see why management types prefer MS.

  7. What about SOM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's already been done. Make any language object orientated.
    System Object Model
    IBM links

    Rick DeBay