9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
1:17 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, geoffrey oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
I wonder how much programmers in the 50's and
60's argued about how many CPU cycles this programming construct took vs. that. ;)
Probably a lot. In the earliest days, assemblers were considered a
poor use of time on the machine.
Of course, these are the people who argued as to how many digits you
really need to represent a year on the modern calendar. Hint: 2
digits only takes you so far... ;-)
-ethan