Re: software progress (RE: Hardware Progress: $319/GF)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 20:51:19 MDT


Ben Goertzel wrote:
>>Software technology has not progressed in quite the way I would have liked
>>it to. I'd like to see specialized chips for graph rewriting to enable
>>efficient
>
>
> efficient pure functional programming, I meant to say
>
> I'd like to see supercompilation (www.supercompilers.com) working already,
> and it would be if the software industry had placed a focus on code
> efficiency rather than code bloat
>
>

Yes. The "software industry" has largely been responsible for
many of the weaknesses of software and software development
today. Maximizing profit did not include maximizing many real
computer science values.

-samantha



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