The Future IS Exponential?

[Jason]

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey playing a note in C. Machine code looks like magic to a primitive like me. I wouldn't know where to start to learn it.

[cronus]

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey playing a note in C. Machine code looks like magic to a primitive like me. I wouldn't know where to start to learn it.

Maybe this guy could help out?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole

[pErvinalia]

Huh?

Forum software should automatically insert this after every Scrumple post...

The ultimate limit is knowing when to stop and retrench to focus on software development rather than raw processing power. Otherwise all you have is very fast dumb machine. Maybe that was the eighties when programming was interesting enough to be passed down the generations and heavily pixelated graphics in games meant imagination was still the king rather than the barbaric hyperviolent realism of today.

One does seem to follow the other, in practice. Perhaps some sort of super-heuristic would solve the problem of software development and pave the way for developing raw processing power? I have no idea. There was a time when I could figuratively lose myself in code, but I haven't written much for a long time and it was always seat of the pants coding. Compiler warnings are for sissies!

Or am I missing the point?

Yeah, BASIC even should do it since the driving force is human imagination and creative insight. Only way to avoid pretend programming and avoid losing the interesting stuff is to be one step from the machine code and a long way from the modern brain dead apps-push a button-logic....I was using FORTH though in the eighties...never any good at following the herd.

I don't think you understand how computers work. Software isn't the bottleneck. It's hardware.

[cronus]

Computers stop is all I know but I always was a paper based geek at heart.