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Re: gEDA-user: C++ (was Re: interesting links)
On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 9:26 PM, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
>> I'm no longer obsessed with maximizing performance of the machine.
>> Now, I want to maximize my performance as a programmer.
>
> Be very, very careful with that attitude. Back in the 1970s, some
> blithering idiot came up with the idea that programmer time is more
> important than processor time. This has given rise to things like
> Windows, which takes hundreds of megabytes of RAM and multi-GHz
> processors to do even the very simplest of things. That moron back
> in the 1970s (whoever it was) should be put up against a wall and
> shot.
#include <mooreslaw.h>
-a
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