On 12/11/2007, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Norman
> [snip]
> However, I wonder how much bloat would disappear if developers had to go
> back to programming in machine language and not through a nice interpreted
> language like C, Python, Java etc
>

Quite a lot of the bloat would disappear, but it would be replaced by
a load more bugs, given today's marketing-driven deadlines (my boss
asked me the other day: "How long will this take, bearing in mind I
know when it needs to ship?") and the write-only nature of
assembler...

Hwyl,
Neil.

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