Dear Fyodor and Douglas
Saying that "Minimalism works today but is becoming dangerous[??]", I mean that for many tasks we need to use not simple interfaces and difficult tools. I based in an interview of Wirth:
http://youtu.be/wrGytM2YTQY Even he must use very complicated and not well designed stuff in his work. And that is the only way in some cases. That I mean. The ifort Intel compiler is 50 times!!! faster than BlackBox in for loops tasks and 10 times faster than XDS Oberon Compiler with maximum optimisation. That can make sense then you make physics science.
Dear Fyodor
Could you be so kind to give a comment about BlackBox GUI Linux version sources (Draft but Working) and your plans on including them into the program of BlackBox development.
Regards, Ivan
2013/8/22 Fyodor Tkachov <ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy
> [cleaned up version by Doug Danforth (native speaker of English)]
Thanks, Doug. It should have been my job, in theory.
> The BlackBox community can unify three things: 1. Style (maintain the
> minimalism of N.Wirth & A.Einstein). ....
> Minimalism works today but is becoming dangerous[??] and not every user
> of Blackbox enjoys this [who doesn't enjoy this?]. ....
"Excessive complexity is vulnerability" (the Kalashnikov Principle).
This is a fundamental law of Evolution.
The art of minimalism (= Wirth's "simplicity" or Guknecht's "purity") is not easy to master.
Ivan is not quite there yet.
The same is true about a vast number of "not everyones".
The OberonCore team, on the other hand, has been demonstrating competence amd reserve, and I have been relying on their bugfixing work for years.
And I think I can assume responsibility for fixing grammar in their English desctiprions of their bug fixes in future.
At least the bug fixing part should not be a concern from international perspective.
Details will be sorted out in the due course.
In my view, the Ominc announcement is mostly just words,
not much has changed in essence.
There is a number of big entities that could step in and leverage BB/Oberon to their advantage,
but they are not aware of the fact.
It is important to keep knocking on those various doors.
As an observer of Nature, I am looking forward to seeing how things develop :)
cheers
fyodor
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