From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:427cb0a5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Its really just admitting that code sucks and there's nothing we can do
>> about it 
>
> I think it's more of a question. Were we better off with 50K programs hand
> coded in asm and run on a 1mhz cpu or are we better off with reusable
> module
> bloated programs that fill a 600mb CD and run on a 3ghz cpu?

Tradeoffs, tradeoffs... While I think that a lot of the code written today
basically stinks, it is difficult to achieve the level of functionality
that is expected of today's apps, without uaing a very high-level, reusable
codebase, be it oop or whatever. The sad part is, that many programmers
just a tad younger than me have never actually had to think about limited
memory or processor power, so they're basically clueless about even the
most basic optimising where a lot could be done by just thinking about how
the logic in a program code works, and what it means performance-wise.


Antti Kurenniemi

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