From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T06:36:35+09:00
Subject: Re: "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"

On 10/16/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
> > FYI, here is a quote which seems relevant to Ruby:
> >
> Now there are some good things in the Wirth paper.  I like his
> observations about how computer architects often get things quite
> wrong when they define complex instructions to 'help' say compiler
> writers.    This resonated with my early experience at IBM when on the
> first day on the job I was handed a specification for a new computer
> called FS, which was then supposed to be the replacement for the
> S/370, for a cogent analysis of where THAT was likely to (and in fact
> did) end up, see http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm a
> confidential IBM memo from 1974 which I never expected to see again.
>

Thank you for linking to this. It's fascinating.