Xref: utzoo comp.arch:21167 comp.lang.misc:6742 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Architectural implications of reference based languages Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 15:01:16 GMT References: <1991Feb13.170045.16864@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <3341@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <1411@fang.dsto.oz> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Followup-To: comp.lang.misc Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 > Memory, without doubt. For many programmers their time is worthless, or > at least so their employer believes :-). Plus, you spend programmer time once. With a popular application, you may be spending that memory a million times. > Maybe the one or two orders of magnitude more resources gained in the > last ten years by the industry could have been more profitably expended > in doing something better than multiple xterms (even if ideas frankly do > not abound), not in hiring sloppier system programmers. Bravo! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"