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by loup-vaillant
3703 days ago
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Are program meant to tell the computer what to do? (Knuth) Or are computers meant to execute our programs? (CISP) Personally I lean towards the second view, for a simple reason: we design programs much more often than we design computers. Computer design doesn't take much of humanity's time, compared to programming them. So I'd rather have the hardware (and compiler suite) bend over backwards to execute our pretty programs efficiently, than having our programs bend over backwards to exploit our hardware efficiently. |
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