{"id":57,"date":"2011-10-14T03:25:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-10-14T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:25:09","slug":"a-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"A Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another titan of computer science died yesterday. Dennis Richie, father of C and UNIX passed away at 70. I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/herbsutter.com\/2011\/10\/12\/dennis-ritchie\/\">this post by Herb Sutter<\/a>\u00a0which gives an idea of the scale of cognitive leap that he had to make in order to think that he could make a universal programming language\u00a0competitive\u00a0with platform specific assembly.<\/p>\n<p>For me it begs the modern question: Is it possible to build a dynamic modern programming language (ala Python, Ruby, R, etc.) that performs competitively with C? Most examples that I can think off are of by two orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another titan of computer science died yesterday. Dennis Richie, father of C and UNIX passed away at 70. I enjoyed this post by Herb Sutter\u00a0which gives an idea of the scale of cognitive leap that he had to make in order to think that he could make a universal programming language\u00a0competitive\u00a0with platform specific assembly. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fellstat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}