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From: woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Implications of powerful systems
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Date: 28 Mar 89 13:09:06 GMT
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> Writes: Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die
> As an analogy, who needs a 15MIPS workstation? Very few people, but
> they're available now and are cost competitive with slower
> workstations so, hey, that's what we all want. The others will wither
> on the vine.

One of the side effects of all these bigger and faster computers
are that more options and effects are being added, and this is good
but it also allows less efficient and sloppier code.  Given, that
all applications don't need to be written in assembly any more,
but there are quite a few programs that I have looked through,
that are incredibly sloppy.

It is sad that as machines go faster, some of the same programs
we always used go slower.

	John d Woolverton, programmer.
	 woolstar@csvax.caltech.edu