From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:427cf936$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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.
>
> I think the goal is to have programmers create the tools, the programming
> "language" and that it's the users who should then take
those pieces and
> assemble them into the real applications.

One could almost think of the OS as the tool you think about: just download
the functionality you want to it, if the software (as we understand it now)
were free... Interesting idea.


Antti Kurenniemi
(most apps still suck, though ;-)

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5