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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (metze@vmetze.mrl.uiuc.edu)
Thu Mar 9 08:36:24 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 08:20:01 +0500
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>
> <rant mode on>
> At some point in the future it may be that we will have operating systems that
> are capable of supporting the kind of features necessary to support agents
> and use by the public in general. But to get there we will have to abandon
> the current 20 year old software design philosophy.
> When UNIX was first developed operating systems of the day were written in
> assembler. 20 years later C has replaced assemble, and for C++ just think
> of a macro assembler. With the newer languages and tools available why are
> we now using the 90's moral equivalent of assembler?
> <rant mode off>
>
> --
> Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-6717
> Eyepoint Inc. || fax: (905)513-6718
> alvin@eyepoint.com ||
>
RIGHT ON!
