The Silently Shifting Semicolon [pdf]

Post by avandeursen » Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 5:20 PM UTC

Post by WillEngler » Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 6:53 PM UTC

tfoil2 wrote: post #2

So Alice quits programming and goes back to cooking because Math is Hard. And we wonder why there are gender issues in tech.

Post by _delirium » Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

Post by tfoil2 » Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 7:23 PM UTC

acqq wrote: post #4

WillEngler wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a completely different reading. I thought the fable portrayed Alice as thoughtful and bright. The punchline is that this talented student was right to leave programming for cooking because the lack of sequential consistency in high-level languages is absurd.

But is the argument for higher consistency based on the existence of "saner" architecture as in x86, and wasn't argument insufficient in the time the article was written (1998) as well as is now, given that ARM predates the article and its popularity significantly increased since?

Post by avandeursen » Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

tfoil2 wrote: post #7

acqq wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But is the argument for higher consistency based on the existence of "saner" architecture as in x86, and wasn't argument insufficient in the time the article was written (1998) as well as is now, given that ARM predates the article and its popularity significantly increased since?

I see the reference to the "1998 ACM Subject Classification", but this paper is part of a May 2015 conference: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/research/pub.php?id=snapl15