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From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Implications of large memory sy
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Date: 30 Mar 89 22:02:00 GMT
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] Written  7:09 am  Mar 28, 1989 by woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
] 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.

Another effect is that layer upon layer of shells, languages, and environments
are beginning to grow.  This contributes to inefficiencies as well.