On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 03:47 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:31:10PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: [snip] > I think we would end up with much better software if all developers were > forced to use old, slow computers :) I remember how good and fast the > software was on my old RISC OS Acorn with 4MB RAM (Impression, Sibelius, > Artworks). Something is seriously wrong with the way people write > software these days!
I have to somewhat disagree. Much modern software just *does more*(1) than, and is more integrated with the DE, than old(2) software. And don't forget that s/w written in C++ is larger and slower than C programs. But yes, VM can make people sloppy. OTOH, it can allow them to write easier-to-read s/w, because of the lack of need to write dense, hard to debug, code that wrings the last bit of speed out of the box. Ron 1) Which sometimes, but not always, is Creeping Featuritis. 2) Macintosh excepted, but it had it's own problems: the geniuses who wrote it had to be brilliant to squeeze all that greatness into a 64KB ROM, and the hacks they had to do mad it difficult to make multi-finder, do protected multi-tasking, and port the s/w to Power. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog." Mark Twain
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