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Programming Language Critiques

By olecom
Created May 15 2008 - 08:16

I wonder, what would be there: [1]
TO DO: What's so special about string and text processing?
trace:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~engler/cool-people.html [2]
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~engler/ [3]
http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/ [4]
big Q: where is Open Source of all that cool stuff?

?Or is it again:

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Indeed, one of my major complaints about the computer field is that
whereas Newton could say, "If I have seen a little farther than others,
it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants," I am forced to
say, "Today we stand on each other's feet." Perhaps the central problem
we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation
where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much
of it in a trivially different way. Science is supposed to be
cumulative, not almost endless duplication of the same kind of things.

	R. W. Hamming
	One Man's View of Computer Science
	1968 Turing Award Lecture
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I acually started form my very first topic here [5], which has some new appearance in lkml:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/680465 [6]

Andi says, patches will have feedback. I want: developing tools to have feedback too. Or it's just another handcrafting "know how" and "gimme the patch or stfu" of kernel developers. Oh, well...

I try to develop not just analysis, but text transforming. Document it, make it be an easy tool to access (e.g. `sh` && `sed` script). Allow it to be re-usable and re-editable for further similar tasks. Nobody understands, as it seems...
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