>CPU cycles are getting cheaper whereas human development time is not. This is exactly the point. You can't just take the existing Fortran code and convert it to C++. Besides, CPU cycles are cheap now if you do game engines, but in the REAL WORD (tm), if you design let's say an engine, it doesn't have to look nice and feel godd, it has to WORK as good as possible and it has to be designed as fast as possible as cheap as possible. If you do your simulation in 2 hours instead of 6 hours, and you do thousands of them in the design cycle, $400 for a compiler is peanuts.
This is a damn good article, and I think the point is clear. We want to write programs, they want to make money. They can't stop us, and if they want to make money, they'll find a way. Maybe not in this business, but hey, if they switch from CocaCola to Apple, they can also switch to Durex or something:-)
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>CPU cycles are getting cheaper whereas human development time is not.
This is exactly the point. You can't just take the existing Fortran code and convert it to C++. Besides, CPU cycles are cheap now if you do game engines, but in the REAL WORD (tm), if you design let's say an engine, it doesn't have to look nice and feel godd, it has to WORK as good as possible and it has to be designed as fast as possible as cheap as possible. If you do your simulation in 2 hours instead of 6 hours, and you do thousands of them in the design cycle, $400 for a compiler is peanuts.
It is more like
3.5
3.6
3.9 [4.0 compiled with 2.0.x headers]
4.0 [compiled with 2.2.x headers]
5.x [beta testing]
6.x [beta testing]
7.0
The 5.x and 6.x versions were needed because the libc5 -> libc6 transition is not easy ( remeber Redhat 5.0 ?)
Vlad
Argentina is not and never was a NATO country.
The only non-european countries in NATO are USA and Canada.
And the Sheffield was lost to a french-made Exocet ASM, who btw didn't explode, its fuel just started to burn.
This is a damn good article, and I think the point is clear. :-)
We want to write programs, they want to make money.
They can't stop us, and if they want to make money, they'll find a way. Maybe not in this business, but hey, if they switch from CocaCola to
Apple, they can also switch to Durex or something