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Quote: have ten orders of magnitude between program execution in hours and instruction execution in a microsecond; must have intermediate levels

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Group:
Thesa programming system
Topic:
abstraction in programming
Topic:
decomposition of a system into levels
Topic:
programming by sequential implementation

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In computer programming our basic building block has … computation time. I do not know of any … its fantastic speed, seems to be the first … [e.g., bricks to walls is 10^3]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: need intermediate levels between a program's execution and an instruction's execution; about a 10^10 ratio; bricks to walls is maybe 10^3

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Group: Thesa programming system   (11 topics, 561 quotes)
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