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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Software Technology is NOT Primitive
Message-ID: <1746@culdev1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 19:35:27 EST
Article-I.D.: culdev1.1746
Posted: Wed Nov 11 19:35:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:07:46 EST
Organization: Cullinet Software, Westwood, MA, USA
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farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
| The
| common availability of massive amounts of RAM and raw computing speed
| has spoiled a lot of programmers.  Projects which would have been con-
| sidered "rough drafts" ten years ago, because of their massive consumption
| of resources, are being released as final products.

And, in many cases, the customer is happy because the cost of the
additional hardware (due to inefficiency) is much less than the cost
of additional programming (to make it efficient).  Making something
efficient has its costs, and as hardware becomes cheaper relative to
labor, in more and more cases it is cheaper to just waste those
cycles.

"There *is* a real world out there..."

Dale
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Dale Worley    Cullinet Software      ARPA: culdev1!drw@eddie.mit.edu
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If you get fed twice a day, how bad can life be?