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Memory Performance of Prolog Architectures (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
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Memory Performance of Prolog Architectures (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 40
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One suspects that the people who use computers for their livelihood
are growing more "sophisticated" as the field of computer science
evolves. This view might be defended by the expanding use of
languages such as C and Lisp in contrast to the languages such as
FORTRAN and COBOL. This hypothesis is false however - computer
languages are not like natural languages where successive
generations stick with the language of their ancestors. Computer
programmers do not grow more sophisticated - programmers simply
take the time to muddle through the increasingly complex language
semantics in an attempt to write useful programs. Of course, these
programmers are "sophisticated" in the same sense as are hackers of
MockLisp, PostScript, and Tex - highly specialized and tedious
languages. It is quite frustrating how this myth of sophistication
is propagated by some industries, universities, and government
agencies. When I was an undergraduate at MIT, I distinctly remember
the convoluted questions on exams concerning dynamic scoping in
Lisp - the emphasis was placed solely on a "hacker's" view of
computation, i. e. , the control and manipulation of storage cells.
No consideration was given to the logical structure of programs.
Within the past five years, Ada and Common Lisp have become
programming language standards, despite their complexity (note that
dynamic scoping was dropped even from Common Lisp). Of course, most
industries' selection of programming languages are primarily driven
by the requirement for compatibility (with previous software) and
performance.
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