Funny

[Ridder, Fred]

It's interesting to ponder how fast some of today's applications 
might run if developers still had the skills, tools, and inclination
to write efficient code. Ever-increasing processor power and 
clock speeds have allowed many programmers to write ever
more convoluted and bloated code. It's really refreshing to 
work with teams of developers doing signal processing and
telecommunications software, where processes need to 
operate in real time and latency is evil.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Dov Isaacs
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:21 AM
To: Jim Light; framers at frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Funny

Au contraire ... The IF THEN ELSE and DO WHILE structures
did exist at that timeframe in a language called COBOL
(COmmon Business Oriented Language). As an undergrad at MIT
and an MBA student at Cornell, writing applications in COBOL
and System/360 Assembler language more than paid for my tuition
and my photography habit.

Ironically, I don't know anything that can be done in any
of today's "modern" programming languages that couldn't be
done in either Assembler or COBOL or some combination of
same a hell of a lot more efficiently! Most of today's
software done with such "modern" programming languages is
relatively buggy, slow, and bloated compared to what we did
back then.