Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Mike Loewen]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:

> Software HAS gotten bigger.
> Software has gotten SLOWER.
>
> "Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will again."
>                     - Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
> "If it isn't fast enough, throw hardware at it."
>                     - MICROS~1

    I lost all respect for one of our programmers when after explaining why 
I implemented a feature a certain way because it was faster, she asked 
"Why don't you just run it on a faster computer?"


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