From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T10:47:55+09:00
Subject: Re: In the year 2525

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
>> |It works in JRuby...would that be considered an incompatibility, or is
>> |it an ok diversion from the C impl?
>>
>> I think it is an OK diversion.
> 
> you'll put us all out of work matz - think of all the contracts in 2037!
> 
> -a

Ah, but that assumes people will still be using 32-bit machines then. I
don't know if I'll be around to collect, but I'd bet a tidy sum that the
"default" home computer in 2030 will be a 128-bit multicore machine.

I'm not willing to predict how much RAM or disk space it will have, or
what the operating systems, programming languages and applications will
look like. But just like the supercomputers of the mid-1980s are dwarfed
by today's laptops, I don't think it's a stretch to think that 20 years
from now, the laptops will dwarf today's supercomputers.

I guess I need to take good care of myself. :)