Re:C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful
by frostwarrior on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:52PM
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It took many years to realize the role of software is to be flexible to maintain and modify at the code level.
That's the entire point of "soft"ware. Otherwise there would be no point on doing on a CPU what could be made on an integrated circuit 1000 times faster.
A single guy writing whatever code they decided to do, may create a good program. But as requirements change, and the ownership gets passed on, it quickly becomes a nightmare to modify or refactor.
Good code made in SlowScript® by a team based on consensus on architecture and coding style has more potential for success as a product than the fast and optimized spaghetti code made by the best hacker in the world.
It's because today isn't about programmer productivity.
It's about enabling teams to work together without tripping over their own feet and killing the business.
So much complexity to solve essentially what is a human problem.
It takes 5 people to do the job of 1 back then, and that's what the industry wants. No one would trust an individual.
Too much money flowed into this industry, leading to waste, as it became clearly a pillar of the future.