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On 25/10/12 09:09, Gordon Henderson wrote:
I've invented lots of stuff only to discover a more compact and sensible way of doing it in Knuth. Unfortunately for us Apple and the likes do that and then sue you into the ground and pretend Knuth never existed.On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, tom wrote:I didnt mean to give the impression that parallel processing was new - the only thing new in computing are the new group of people who think they've found or invented something new because they havent bothered to research their field properly.I had a client a while back wanted me to help them optimise some code they'd written... Turns out they'd "invented" bubble sort...Gordon
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