On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:58 PM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10 May, 07:51, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You see Ian, while you and the other millions of coding practitioners >>> have (mal)adapted to a suboptimal coding environment where "hey >>> there's a language for everyone" and terms are thrown around, >>> misused, this is not how it needs or should be. >> >> Please cite your industry experience so we know this is a pragmatic >> exercise for you and not a display of public onanism. > > "Industry experience...." > > Do you know all the world's [industrial] leaders are endorsing an > impossible path of endless, exponential growth on a finite planet? > > Is that who you answer to?
I don't answer to them. I also believe in a path of endless exponential growth. Challenge: Create more information than can be stored in one teaspoon of matter. Go ahead. Try! The first hard disk I ever worked with stored 20MB in the space of a 5.25" slot (plus its associated ISA controller card). Later on we got 3.5" form factor drives, and I remember installing this *gigantic* FOUR GIGABYTE drive into our disk server. Wow! We'll NEVER use all that space! (Well, okay. Even then we knew that space consumption kept going up. But we did figure on that 4GB lasting us a good while, which it did.) Today, I can pop into Budget PC or MSY (or you folks in the US could check out newegg) and pick up a terabyte of storage in the same amount of physical space, or you can go 2.5" form factor and take up roughly a fifth of the physical space and still get half a terabyte fairly cheaply. So our exponential growth is being supported by exponential increases in data per cubic meter. Between that and the vast size of this planet, I don't think we really need to worry too much about finite limits to IT growth. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
