Good to see this being built and Babbage being appreciated for what he should have achieved.
There was a documentary on in the UK about him recently, and it basically stated that if Babbages Difference engine had been built, WW1 would have lasted about 10 minutes due to the accuracy of the gunnery tables that could have been produced.
This will be why they are adding the shell into Windows Vista, to allow scripting like all the unix types know how.
Dont know what will happen though with all the utils that exist right now that have no scriptable interface. Guess it will be a mess.
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Good to see this being built and Babbage being appreciated for what he should have achieved. There was a documentary on in the UK about him recently, and it basically stated that if Babbages Difference engine had been built, WW1 would have lasted about 10 minutes due to the accuracy of the gunnery tables that could have been produced.
This will be why they are adding the shell into Windows Vista, to allow scripting like all the unix types know how. Dont know what will happen though with all the utils that exist right now that have no scriptable interface. Guess it will be a mess.