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Ada-C redux
Posted by stan on Oct 31, 2011 in Uncategorized
In a recent post on the DeepChip website, Gary Smith states that Fortran and Ada are superior to C and its variants, but notes that “…unless there is a major revolt among Embedded Programmers we are stuck with C and SystemC”. I was very surprised to read this (and surprised at Fortran’s cameo appearance), since [...]
The Deaths of Two Tech Giants
Posted by stan on Oct 18, 2011 in Uncategorized
All of you undoubtedly noted the passing of Steve Jobs on October 5. What you might have missed is the passing of another high technology giant, viz., Dennis Ritchie a few days later. Ritchie was the father of the C language and one of the main forces behind the development of UNIX®. Indeed, the two [...]