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It feels true but I don't think it actually is. Especially given the fact Wirth wrote it in 1995 which is practically the pinnacle of what most of us perceive a
by onion2k 3y ago
It feels true but I don't think it actually is. Especially given the fact Wirth wrote it in 1995 which is practically the pinnacle of what most of us perceive as when software was actually fast.
- trealira 3y agoIt could have been true the whole time. Perhaps software has been getting slower, and it's gotten so much slower and more bloated that 1995 software seems lean and fast by our modern standards, when by 1980s Wirthian standards, it wasn't.