Sarah

Ilford, Essex

IT Consultant

I totally agree with this article. I always wonder about the true efficiency of code written these days.

I know that this may make me sound old and yet I think all developers should have to write code (for a while when training) to work within similar constraints to how I learnt the principles of software development. In my first job in 1981 this was using a maximum of 64K of memory and 32Mb of disk space, in Microsoft Basic running on CP/M. As a previous poster said, we were continually refining the code for efficiency and to save memory usage.

It still amazes me how much functionality we were able to create given the constraints.

I still use these same principles with every piece of code that I have written since then.

However it does seem that most people's answer is to expect Intel and the other chip manufacturers to provide continually faster processors.

Shame really. Thats when software development really was a skill .....