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Re: The Good ol' days of computers
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Wed, 19 January 2005 11:35
 
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| river wrote on Wed, 19 January 2005 08:11 |
Hi,
The most shameful thing is the shit programmers that now inherit the world.
We programmed in assembler and then walked-through and hand-optimised our code for compactness and performance. To get more performance you'd have to again go through and try and optimise your code. No one was gonna spend another few thousand dollars for an extra 16K of memory!
As hardware prices fell and programmer wages skyrocketed, the situation reversed. The solution now is to buy another processor or whack more memory in the bitch. Don't bother fixing or tightening your code. You can get away with shit code now and trust me, I've seen a lot of code that would make baby jesus cry.
I think all programmers should spend some time with little 8bit processors, doing assembly language - so they can understand the hardware (ie CPU registers, stack, memory limits, instruction cycle timings and interrupts) before they go off and write bloated inefficient code that does bugger all and still sucks the life out of a 3Ghz Pentium with 2G of RAM.
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Where doI sign up for your church?
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