Name: Anonymous 2011-06-04 13:15
>>http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#[[Data%20Oriented%20Luddites]]
But what I do want to make is a meta-comment. The DOD folk are widely seen as a bunch of ninja curmudgeon bit-heads. Although I think they'd probably be quite proud of that label, the image it conveys is of folks who can hand-tune any assembly routine known to man but loathe anything higher-level than C99. They can argue about set associativity, DTLB walking and tell you how many clock cycles it is to main memory. Which is all very clever, but if you don't know that stuff they think you're Not A Well Rounded Programmer, and if you use the word "virtual" they'll commence much wailing and gnashing of teeth. In the other corner we have hipsters coming out of university courses with heads full of Java and Python and looking blankly at you when you talk about bitfield manipulation and the justifiable use of "goto". When you say "compile" they think you mean "tokenize", and they regard exception-handling as part of standard control flow rather than an admission of failure in code design.
Of course we should all switch to LISP
But what I do want to make is a meta-comment. The DOD folk are widely seen as a bunch of ninja curmudgeon bit-heads. Although I think they'd probably be quite proud of that label, the image it conveys is of folks who can hand-tune any assembly routine known to man but loathe anything higher-level than C99. They can argue about set associativity, DTLB walking and tell you how many clock cycles it is to main memory. Which is all very clever, but if you don't know that stuff they think you're Not A Well Rounded Programmer, and if you use the word "virtual" they'll commence much wailing and gnashing of teeth. In the other corner we have hipsters coming out of university courses with heads full of Java and Python and looking blankly at you when you talk about bitfield manipulation and the justifiable use of "goto". When you say "compile" they think you mean "tokenize", and they regard exception-handling as part of standard control flow rather than an admission of failure in code design.
Of course we should all switch to LISP