Hi Aditya, Nice observation. It can be explained with slightly modified Parkinson's law <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law> :
"Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Its going to happen more in future. Paul Graham has nicely talked about it in his article Hundred-Year Language. <http://paulgraham.com/hundred.html> Programmers are going to waste the memory and the extra cycles the faster hardware is going to give us. The culture of hacker days (70-80's and even early 90's) are gone. No one cares about memory usage anymore. Programmers are advised not to care as it sounds like premature optimization. Only the people who write javascript for website seem to worry about size of the program. But with expanding bandwidth it will matter less and less. I really don't think programs are going to be written to take small space and cycles. The programs are going to expand to whatever space and power is available. Unless we write our own and care about what we do. -Sujeet G -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
