Richmond- Sunday, January 23, 2011, 9:14:17 AM, you wrote:
> With the advent of a new generation of micro-computer (phones, mp4 > players, and so on), > that virtue may not be seen as quite as redundant as people have been > thinking recently. You and I are old enough to remember when squeezing bytes out of a program was something to strive for. The Company That Shall Not Be Named changed all that when they invented MSBloatware(tm) and unfortunately the rest of the world followed suit. And modern CS courses concentrate on top-down design these days at the expense of code efficiency and elegance. Even in embedded systems it's no longer as necessary to count bytes these days. I'm still upset about having to carry around all the baggage of the LC engine for a small standalone program. In the pre-4.0 days I could write a simple script that would invoke the engine and run. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
