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- From: schow@bqneh23.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: "Training" of programmers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.142253.8165@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:22:53 GMT
- References: <Btx4vF.Jx6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Sep4.151001.9886@sei.cmu.edu> <id.Z12T.QD5@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.Z12T.QD5@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.151001.9886@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
- >> This problem is pervasive. Each generation sees a new and more monstrous
- >> bloat in the size and cycle consumption of what I still think of as basic
- >> system software - device drivers, editors, compilers, linkers. And the
- >> reason the programmers are so profligate of resources is that they have
- >> never been taught that resources matter - they are told that, in computer
- >> science, "everything is virtual", and all resources are infinite and free.
- >
- >Agreed. Because they never have to deal with an environment where this isn't
- >true.
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- And of course, some learn about reality very reluctantly. I venture to
- guess that a majority of *paid* programming is done in an environment
- where the cost mattered: embedded control, PC/Mac programs, mainframe
- computing, supercomputing, accounting, inventory, MIS, etc (actually,
- have I left out any major areas where people get paid to program?)
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