On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 25 Oct 2011 at 10:50, Mouse wrote:
"The most amazing achievement of the
computer software industry is its
continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the
computer hardware industry." ?- Henry Petroski
I remember an Intel engineer summarizing this more succinctly
somewhat like this:
"We work hard to build chips with amazing performance and the
software people piss it all away."
--Chuck
An easy cure is give developers slow machines with limited memory and
slow disk subsystems.
I do that to myself. I find it a good way to discover the "right way" TM
Dave Caroline