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Richard Henry

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More options Aug 19 2008, 5:26 pm

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From: Richard Henry <pomer...@hotmail.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:26:06 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Aug 19 2008 5:26 pm

Subject: Re: A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?

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On Aug 19, 8:07 am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> A chip too far? Where is your solution Mr Larkin?
> http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/technology/microchips_copeland.fortun...

> Blowing in the wind, all blowing in the wind.

The early computer were necessarily programmed directly in machine
code. The development of the early assemblers created a priesthood of
a few experts that knew how to get the most out of the assemblers
because they had experience getting hte machines to work with machine
code. Eventually, those experts were able to write "higher-level"
programming languages (notably COBOL and FORTRAN) that appeared as
laguage understood by a broader spectrum of users, and worked because
they underlying code was written by the assembler/machine code
experts.

It seems to me that the multicore effort is attempting to take
existing high-level languages and graft them onto the new hardware
without first growing a cadre of expert users who know how to get the
most out of the processors at the elemental level.

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