🚀 go-pugleaf

In <CEDMAN.90Nov15163504@lynx.ps.uci.edu>, cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
>In article <ggk.658699652@tirith.UUCP> ggk@tirith.UUCP (Gregory Kritsch) writes:

>What I am complaining about ?
>[raving-prophet-of-the-doom-of-computerdom-and-the-decadence-of-
> -the-young-programmers-mode on ]
>
>It is a terrible abuse of resources.  The new computers are great in
>term of power/memory/hd sizes.
>
> [ ... ]
>
>But what happens ? Do new, imaginative mind-blowing programs appear at
>every turn ?
>
>No, not a chance. Instead of using the new machines to their full
>potential programers merely go around and do the same things they used
>to do with the old machines over again. Only this time they are far
>less careful. They squander resources on a few minutes laziness.

It has always been this way, and will always be this way.

"No matter how good the hardware guys make it, the software guys just piss it
away."

-larry


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