On 10/06/13 1:18 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
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I'm slowing coming to the opinion that a first year C developer should
be /forced/ to develop on a CPU and memory constrained platform, such as
Agree 100%. It wouldn't help if they *continued* to develop on machines
a few years behind the curve, as well.
--T
a 386 with 4-8MB of memory vs a modern multi-core CPU
with multiple
gigabytes of memory, so that they will learn first hand how to write
more efficient C code. I wonder how many of the current userspace
developers and package maintainers have ever even touched a 386 based
machine, let alone something even more resource limited?