| ??? 03/20/07 08:59 Read: times |
#135362 - ancient Greek Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Russell Bull said:
The requirement for people to speak ancient Greek has also diminished over the ages! Certainly. Once, a whole nation including kids and also some foreigners, spoke ancient Greek... However, anybody who deals with Greece-related history/archeology professionally NEEDS to - well at least READ, if not SPEAK - ancient Greek! Russell, to the rest of your comments: it certainly holds true for LARGE projects and LARGE systems (now the question is where to draw the line, isn't it...). I'd say productivity or readibility are false arguments in itself, but the level of abstraction needed for LARGER projects undoubtedly is (and this can lead to productivity and readability issues secondarily). However, C is the least adequate language for this task, no doubt. I think Jez is a competent designer enough to judge where asm is appropriate and where is not. And, for that matter, where to use hardwired logic rather than a microcontroller. These are all valid technologies, all having its place and giving up some of them and praising others simply because of lazyness is ridiculous. JW |
