Re:The story of George — ayttm's most prolific non-developin...
by Luyt on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:57PM
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George writes (about ayttm):
"When I learned programming, about 40 years ago, it was
important to write small, fast, and dependable code. I had
thought those days were gone forever and I would be stuck
in a world of huge, inefficient programs written by
non-programmers that moved me farther and farther from
what was happening on my computer."
That sounds to me like a manifestation of Parkinson's Law, where any extra CPU speed or memory capacity is immediately filled with inefficient software bloat.
"When I learned programming, about 40 years ago, it was important to write small, fast, and dependable code. I had thought those days were gone forever and I would be stuck in a world of huge, inefficient programs written by non-programmers that moved me farther and farther from what was happening on my computer."
That sounds to me like a manifestation of Parkinson's Law, where any extra CPU speed or memory capacity is immediately filled with inefficient software bloat.