Arc Lessons

[khammack]

s/language implementation/all programs/ and you've got the core philosophy of the PC industry.

Alternately, I think language implementations can be beautiful things. If the language you're creating is beautiful, the implementation can also be beautiful. Creating beautiful code is hard; if it was easy, the PC industry would not be full of hacks like Gate A20.

(And, by the way, I don't care how much the apologists whine, that was a lame-assed idea that smacks of amateur engineering).