[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 22/05/2019 à 20:15, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
> As for OpenVMS ports, I've seen three of those from the inside.  Two 
> more—RSX-11M to VAX/VMS, and this current x86-64 port—from the outside. 
> Each had clever bits.  I found the Mach port to be the most clever.
Sorry dear scholar, I go back to my mud, hoping I'll have enought 
contracts to survive.

Some formal remarks, however: induction from extreme examples gives 
biaises to reasonments ; and *lots* of examples is not a proof.

And you are right: I was not speaking about theoretical computer 
science, only about general ways of thinking.
Kant was quoted there, I don't know if they read it in US. I supposed it 
could be the case, because in the times you ported rsx and vms Ruth 
Goldenberg used to have rich epigraphs on her chapters. Other times, 
where thinking seemed to be a normal occupation even for programmers. 
Nowadays we are cleverer, we count the contracts and there are our 
epigraphs. In a sense I feel too old.