“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster” rip wirth

[mocore]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/

via the above
` "Closing Word" to the November 1968 Algol Bulletin 29`- https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/algol/algol_bulletin/A29/P32.HTM


""A Plea for Lean Software" by Prof. Niklaus Wirth" - https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html

[core-user]

It's all to do with the creating programs - look at the speed of assembler against python programs - but it's easier to program in python than assembler, so that's what gets used!

If you don't believe me, take a look at KolibriOS - http://kolibrios.org/en/

[gadget42]

re: kolibrios.org

looks like some brand-new releases came out yesterday

https://kolibrios.org/en/download.htm

[core-user]

re: kolibrios.org

looks like some brand-new releases came out yesterday

https://kolibrios.org/en/download.htm

Thanks for the heads up on that.... 

[mocore]

It's all to do with the creating programs - look at the speed of assembler against python programs - but it's easier to program in python than assembler, so that's what gets used!

If you don't believe me, take a look at KolibriOS - http://kolibrios.org/en/

>If you don't believe me
 
im not shore i have any reason to doubt or other wise

once you have `programs` ( i hear they are algorithms + data structs
you have to run them in "your" (tm)hw/environment

and when they don't work they provide  some (incomplete) insight's into "The Mess We're In" - https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26336.msg169746.html#msg169746

wrt
>look at the speed of assembler against python programs
this slide (from: "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong)
seams relevant
 

[boblewis]

thanks for sharing

[CardealRusso]

Maybe we won't live long enough to see it, but I think it's safe to say that soon (in the next 100 years) home computers will die out, and those who insist on using desktop computers will have to make do with discarded parts from data centres, as these new parts are absurdly expensive.

Few of my nephews know how to use computers, some have never used one.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mobile-internet-usage-surpasses-desktop-first-time-ever-worldwide/177507/ (2016)