George writes (about ayttm): "When I learned programming, about 40 years ago, it was important to write small, fast, and dependable code. I had thought those d

George writes (about ayttm): "When I learned programming, about 40 years ago, it was important to write small, fast, and dependable code. I had thought those days were gone forever and I would be stuck in a world of huge, inefficient programs written by non-programmers that moved me farther and farther from what was happening on my computer." That sounds to me like a manifestation of Parkinson's Law, where any extra CPU speed or memory capacity is immediately filled with inefficient software bloat.