addSlot complicating module handling

[Pupeno]

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Je Lundo Majo 9 2005 17:00, Lee Salzman skribis:
> How many man hours does it take to write an office suite in C? How many
> in Slate?
> I'd like to think it'd take on the orders of magnitude less in Slate
> than in C. Now, one
> could reasonably assume a Slate version might, with reasonable levels of
> optimization
> that are standard for Java, be about twice as slow as the best C
> version, and consume
> twice as much memory.
I bet there was a time, when the first compilers started to appear, than 
writing the application directly in assembly ended up in a much faster 
application, but the compilers  started to get better and the computer faster 
and there was a time when writing assembler was no longer worth it (except 
for experimentation and learning).
We may see the time when writing a static-language is no longer worth it, 
because the dynamic-language are so much better... and we might eventually 
see C die, leaving the field to newer languages... in that sense, today 
development of newer languages, like Slate, is shaping the future, maybe 
shaping years and years like those two guys did when inventing the C, without 
even knowing.
Or maybe I just watched the end of Babylon 5 today and I'm too-sentimental.
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