[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Steve Teale]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> > Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> Doesn't matter what you're making, OS or not, the choice of language 
> >> *certainly* carries repercussions throughout a project. Sure Linux is 
> >> doing fine with C. So what? It could probably be doing a lot better 
> >> with D.
> > 
> > It's like if you gave the Spartan Leonidas a Henry repeating rifle - he 
> > still would have lost at Thermopylae. But there is little doubt that one 
> > Henry repeating rifle is worth a hundred spear-chucking wicker-armored 
> > immortals.
> 
> Sometimes I run these crazy calculations: how much modern firepower 
> would be just enough to turn the odds in a classic battle? At 
> Thermopilae, I think two Vickers with enough ammo would have been just 
> about enough. Also at the Lord of the Rings 2 night castle defense, one 
> machine gun would have sufficed (better protection and fewer assailants).
> 
> 
> Andrei

I see that my most popular thread has now evolved into something completely different.

I should think that 20 men with decent automatic rifles would have been enough for Agincourt. That way more gentlemen could have laid abed in England and not felt so guilty.