eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) (09/16/88)
In article <1499@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP I wrote for comp.arch: > >In ACM SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 17, no. 9, Sept. 1982, Alan Perlis >wrote in the article Epigrams on Programming: > >> You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the >> continuing vitality of FORTRAN. > >I say: >You can measure a person's perspective by noting whether he thinks >a VAX is a "mainframe." You can measure a project's (person, company) perspective on parallel computing by noting the percentage of time, resources, pages of paper in an article, etc. spent in hardware versus software. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."