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A comment on Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster.

Re:Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hard... by oldmanjay on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:07PM (#12719619)
Wouldn't it be great if we had to use the finicky featureless software of the 70s forever and ever? Then the normies wouldn't feel welcome using computers and we could be hygiene-free wizards of the arcane again. Oh boy.

Which is to say, this is reductive bullshit based on biases. Boring, boring, boring.

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Re:Wirth's Law - Software gets slower more quickly than hard... by CyberDildonics on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:19PM (#12722315)
If you are trying to make a case that software has to be bloated to be easy to use and not crash, it is pure ridiculous nonsense. Virtual memory, libraries and better tools are the reason software is better now. Did you ever use uTorrent before it was bought?
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