On: Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad

[MichaelGG]

You misread. The point is that compilers are fundamental to CS, and barring things like a Flash compiler is vile.

[rimantas → MichaelGG]

Ok, compilers are fundamental to CS. Have you heard about Clang and LLVM? Do you know who is behind that project?

[jrockway → rimantas]

Not Apple's iPhone team.

Clang is some crazy engineers at Apple. Apple's new policies are straight from the top.

[rimantas → jrockway]

The parent talked about Apple. So did I. By the way, what are your sources? You look so damn well informed about what's going on at Apple.

[krschultz → rimantas]

Have you read the damn article at all? Source to source compilers are now against the TOS. Sure you can do it and how would Apple know - but commercially you can't advertise a tool that does it. Forget what's going on INSIDE Apple, people are pissed off about what Apple is trying to do to those on the outside.

[rimantas → krschultz]

Pardon me? I was not commenting on the article, I was commenting on the comment which outrageously claims pure bullshit that:

  … Apple has been shutting off fundamental techniques
  in computer science since day one.

And it does not name "iPhone team", it says Apple. What I say is that the work Apple is doing on LLVM, Clang, GCD, OpenCL, Webkit, etc. proves otherwise. I would gladly forget what's going on inside Apple, but first, I don't know, and second, this was addressed to some commenter talking like as if he knows (which he don't). So, thanks's for advice, but be advised to read the thread before commenting.