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Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 136

Back in the day, I remember the local Bell main switching center being a very non-descript, completely unmarked mysterious building.

I imagine that also was for security reasons.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

Comment Same as it ever was (Score 1) 87

"While this isn't a sign that Java and similar languages are in decline," concludes InfoQ's article, "there is growing evidence that at the uppermost end of performance requirements, some are finding that general-purpose runtimes no longer suffice."

This has always been the case. Since the late 50's there were languages designed to run fast and others that were programmer-friendly instead of machine-friendly.

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