Friday, September 21, 2007

Technical Advise Week #8- Parametric polymorphism

Don't you think that this is a big mouthful to come from such small mouths? Aside from large words having big meaning we have also seen the continued influx of abbreviations hitting our desk as of late. Many coming from emerging processes that profess the virtues of simplicity, minimization, and purity. On one hand the theme and on the other hand the truth. BTW... Parametric Polymorphism is code with connection to type but allowed to operate transparently with a large variety of types. Max just giggled and said that it's somewhat like being neutered... still have the life without the impact on other!

Dad told us about an interesting trip back home and how he and some colleagues discussed memory content manipulation, long passed technologies, compressed programming and lots and lots of stuff that frankly is a bit beyond what we can fully understand. He made it pretty simple, there was a time when everything you did had to be conservative, and the relationship was intimate with the hardware and software components. Today, these things are reserved for real-time processes and embedded applications. Everyone else is simply satisfied to know enough to work with the software and not probe to get inside what it is doing. From our little corner of the world.... we have found that a wealth of surprises and interesting things hide within. So unless anyone else gives a hoot, we are quite happy to enjoy these gems for ourselves.

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