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

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

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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).
> 
	Since we're on the subject, I suppose you all have read the 1632
series by Eric Flint and others.

		Jerome
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