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In article <4air6a$9ik@gateway.ctg.com> ctg83158@gateway.ctg.com (Nicole Tedesco) writes:
   I LOVE IT!!!  These posts have been great!  However, I must take
   a minor exception: memory usage increase has not been simply a
   silly excursion into time-wasting on the part of programmers and
   memory chip-makers.  There is something real being built "under the
   hood".  The potential of this "something" has not yet been fully
   realized.  This "something" is called Software Abstraction.  It
   is an effort to increase the overall profficiency of development
   teams, and SIMULTANEOUSLY increase the QUALITY of the product.
   You know, object-oriented programming and all that.

Oh, like X windows. A giant overengineered object oriented piece of
crap. Taken to its logical extreme in something called "CDE" that
requires several megabytes just to present me with a button I can use
to start a program with. And because it leaks memory all over the place,
I have to log out every few days to reclaim swap space.

   I remember programming on the Timex Sinclair.  Sure, I could build
   a quicky-program.  However, I didn't have room to include quality
   checks, support for efficient evolution of the product, support
   for very large data sets, and so on.  I was working on software
   to aid an optometrist in his work.  We abandoned the project.  Why?
   Quality problems and the lack of the ability to program a COMPLETE
   set of business, medical and technical rules.  It didn't take us
   long, in 1980-ish, to find the limits of our efforts.

With object-oriented software technology, people are now able to program
well beyond the limits of their efforts!