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What's Worked in Computer Science

posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 30 2015, @08:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the thought-provoking dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

In 1999, Butler Lampson gave a talk about the past and future of "computer systems research" [PDF]. Here are his opinions from 1999 on "what worked".

Yes

Virtual memory
Address spaces
Packet nets
Objects / subtypes
RDB and SQL
Transactions
Bitmaps and GUIs
Web
Algorithms

Maybe

Parallelism
RISC
Garbage collection
Reuse

No

Capabilities
Fancy type systems
Functional programming
Formal methods
Software engineering
RPC
Distributed computing
Security

Basically everything that was a Yes in 1999 is still important today.

The article is a current snapshot on those issues. Do you agree?

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday November 30 2015, @05:13PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday November 30 2015, @05:13PM (#269797)

    I don't know if I can agree with you. Who says what the hard problems will be in 100 or 500 years?

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