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hackermom on Oct 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of the Art is Terrible

"Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all time, x86 assembly. They are almost unfathomably inefficient."

Well put, Sir.

swah on Oct 4, 2011 [–]

OTOH there are compilers (SBCL) which take that beautiful thing Zach probably likes (Lisp) and run efficiently on the stupid thing he seems to hate (Von Neumann machines)...

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