16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
12:19 p.m.
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Rob Pike observed on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820777895689732096
The article misses an important fact: A few years
later we understood it
well and could do it much simpler.
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820777988924981254
We are always learning, and that comment was as much a
note to the
author as to the reader. Now, stack switching is almost trivial.
https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/820778110253613056
A similar thing happened a generation earlier figuring
out subroutine
(function) calls. Whole books were written. Now it's an instruction.
Tony.
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South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger: Variable 4, becoming
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