Inverting the Golden Cage, or a Gift to the Barbarian Hordes at Apple’s Gates.

Published at: 11:04 am - Wednesday April 28 2010

The now-infamous iPhone / iPad SDK Section 3.3.1 reads:

“3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and [...]

Posted in: Hot Air, ModestProposal, NonLoper by Stanislav 15 Comments

The Hardware Culture, or: What They Build, Works! Can We Say the Same?

Published at: 01:03 am - Sunday March 08 2009

Yossi Kreinin throws down the gauntlet to all those who believe that a CPU ought to be designed specifically around the needs of high-level languages:
Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren’t “brain-damaged”/”built to run C”/”a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)”? You do think so? I [...]

Posted in: Hardware, Hot Air, ModestProposal, NonLoper, SoftwareSucks by Stanislav 1 Comment