RE: software progress (RE: Hardware Progress: $319/GF)

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 19:00:04 MDT


> Software technology has not progressed in quite the way I would have liked
> it to. I'd like to see specialized chips for graph rewriting to enable
> efficient

efficient pure functional programming, I meant to say

I'd like to see supercompilation (www.supercompilers.com) working already,
and it would be if the software industry had placed a focus on code
efficiency rather than code bloat

>Etc. Etc. However, there is no question in my mind
> that software
> technology has progressed very rapidly in directions that society
> has found
> useful....



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