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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: OO debuggers
Message-ID: <4337@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 13:52:11 GMT
References: <3941@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> <1988Sep15.200651.18802@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
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In article <1988Sep15.200651.18802@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>As Mike O'Dell observed a while ago (roughly):  "the machines keep getting
>faster, but somehow the response at my keyboard hasn't improved much".  Too
>many of the improvements in hardware performance are being eaten up by
>software writers who assume that they don't have to care about efficiency
>any more.


      Another factor eating away at the improvements in hardware is the
increased functionality we expect from them.  We now have graphical user
interfaces, expert systems and relational databases to contend with.  These
all consume resources.  The systems we are building are far more ambitious
than those built years ago.  The more powerful you make the tools the more
applicable those tools become to difficult problems.


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