Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Time costs more than RAM and CPU Message-ID: Date: 20 May 91 00:57:46 GMT References: <1991May15.112823.22229@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May19.123429.19440@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May19.195257.3375@kessner.denver.co.us> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: david@kessner.denver.co.us's message of 19 May 91 19: 52:57 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws7.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May19.195257.3375@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes: Ahem! Wouden't it be more correct to say: "ALWAYS use the highest language available that can get the job done efficently" What do you mean by efficently? How about efficient as in "does the job effectively w/o causing the user to wait an inordinate amount of time?" I remember a certain co-worker that used a high level language/compiler when writing a paper eject program (all it did was send a form feed to the printer). The executable file was 150K! Yeah, so what. We just bought 16MB of RAM for our computer and the total cost was $640. What high-level language/compiler are you talking about anyway? How long did it take your co-worker to write the program? At what hourly wage does it become cheaper to buy the extra RAM? I then re-wrote it in C, and made it a whole lot more functional/flexable. My executable was less than 10K. How long did it take you? Your program was of course much faster too? Now, both programs did the job. However, the lower level language did it better... No, you did the better job writing the program. Was there some reason that the functionality couldn't have been added to the other program? If you tell me that you're running MS DOS, I'm going to tell you to quit playin with toy operating systems. I get tired of running out of memory on the Model 70 at work with 6MB of RAM just because people won't give up DOS. There is a price to pay for this stupidity. It's known as time and money. But hey, I get paid by the hour :-). -Mike