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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/