SMRTR ProgrammingJun 21, 2026Hacker News

"My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992"

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Decades ago, IBM spent millions on the FORTRAN H compiler but never built a successor—compiler quality had stopped being the bottleneck. The real challenges shifted to methodology, language design, and fundamentally, how we think about programming.

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