On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:08:59 +0200, scott wrote:

> Look, nobody in the world apart from you cares if Word uses up 10MB or
> 6MB of RAM,

Um, not nobody.  It's bothered me for a long time that as computers get 
faster and faster that coding gets sloppier and sloppier.

I realise the realities of software development (given that I work for a 
software company), but if coders were taught to make their code efficient 
to start with, then it would be less of a problem.  The problem doesn't 
start in the software development houses, it starts at school when 
students are learning how to code and are taught bad habits from the 
start.

If coders learned how to write efficient code to start with, there would 
be less wastage of memory in a system (regardless of whether it's a 64K 
system or a 4 GB system), and wasting less memory means more can be done 
with the system at any given time.

Jim

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