[comp.arch] Architectural implications of reference based languages

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (02/25/91)

> 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!
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