Karen Challinor

UK - until 2010

Company Director

I have to agree, back in the day when I was taught to program, you were charged by the microsecond for run time, consequently you learnt very quickly to write efficient code. Now computing power is effectively free, that lesson has to a certain extent been lost.

Another lesson learnt because of the cost was the writing of user proof code, on those rare days you were allowed access to a machine that would interact, you could bet some smart aleck would try their hardest to make your program crash so they could have your terminal. Now everyone effectively has his or her own machine this lesson has also been lost.