Problem: The ball you were playing with went into the pool, and you don’t want to swim after it. On top of that, you have no opposable thumbs, so using a tool is out of the question. What to do? See how this clever dog solved the problem. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath
1) Comparing today's Office to the old DOS Word isn't exactly fair. You can however to the custom install of office and tell it not to install Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, etc. And then you can tell it not to install many features within Word itself. Even then, even ignoring the many features that'll still be installed that weren't in the original Word, what you'll get will be far easier to learn and use than the original Word.
2) In the days of 10MB hard drives, my drive was filled with about 95% program code and about 5% data. Now in the days of 1TB hard drives with music and video and digital photography, my drive is filled with about 5% program code and about 95% data.
Modern OS's are such bloated Fisher Price Candy Coated GUI's with Swiss-Army-Do-Everything features that it's nearly impossible to code lean applications.
Even Steve Gibson doesn't hand compile app's for Win7.
Add in complicated IDE's that do way more then just "help you program" and my Toolkit is bigger then your Toolkit subroutines and massively fat applications is what you get.
Nobody even tries to program lean anymore. If it's too slow - instead of tightening up the code - they just throw bigger hardware at it.
Just check the minimum spec's on any modern game for proof.
Oh, the memories... Turbo Pascal on a CP/M machine was my first encounter with professional programming. Haven't heard of him since university. We - as Germans - never had any difficulties pronouncing his name. Our problem was Donald Knuth and his German looking surname...
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1) Comparing today's Office to the old DOS Word isn't exactly fair. You can however to the custom install of office and tell it not to install Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, etc. And then you can tell it not to install many features within Word itself. Even then, even ignoring the many features that'll still be installed that weren't in the original Word, what you'll get will be far easier to learn and use than the original Word.
2) In the days of 10MB hard drives, my drive was filled with about 95% program code and about 5% data. Now in the days of 1TB hard drives with music and video and digital photography, my drive is filled with about 5% program code and about 95% data.
Even Steve Gibson doesn't hand compile app's for Win7.
Add in complicated IDE's that do way more then just "help you program" and my Toolkit is bigger then your Toolkit subroutines and massively fat applications is what you get.
Nobody even tries to program lean anymore. If it's too slow - instead of tightening up the code - they just throw bigger hardware at it.
Just check the minimum spec's on any modern game for proof.
Another one of those ''ain't Americans stupid'' myths spread by yet another european.
Sigh.