Comments for Lost in Transliteration http://fumbling.com/lost You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:25:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Back to the future by LS http://fumbling.com/lost/2011/06/back-to-the-future/#comment-13 LS Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:25:23 +0000 http://fumbling.com/lost/?p=758#comment-13 "Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive attempt to keep up with Apple." -- Byte, December 1994 "Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of microcomputer technology for the past 2.5 decades as a massive attempt to (catch) up with 70's mainframes." -- Mike Fidler As you observe, this observation is more general and thus more infuriating. My own rhetorical question is to wonder how the world would look if C had at least had first-class functions and garbage collection, though it would probably be easier to arrange things so that Apple nicked Smalltalk as the base of their skunkworks project, instead of all the fancy but comparatively shallow design goodies made with it. f. “Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history
of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive attempt
to keep up with Apple.”
— Byte, December 1994

“Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of
microcomputer technology for the past 2.5 decades as a massive
attempt to (catch) up with 70′s mainframes.”
— Mike Fidler

As you observe, this observation is more general and thus more infuriating.
My own rhetorical question is to wonder how the world would look if C had at least had first-class functions and garbage collection, though it would probably be easier to arrange things so that Apple nicked Smalltalk as the base of their skunkworks project, instead of all the fancy but comparatively shallow design goodies made with it.

f.

]]> Comment on Picture time by Soleil http://fumbling.com/lost/2011/05/picture-time/#comment-12 Soleil Sun, 29 May 2011 17:53:25 +0000 http://fumbling.com/lost/?p=736#comment-12 I see you've become one of those people who photograph their food. :) It is very artistic food though. I see you’ve become one of those people who photograph their food. :) It is very artistic food though.

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