From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.ed u!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: annual "crap-for-brains software" posting
Date: 12 May 93 11:52:38 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993May12.075238.5928@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In article <9305111124.AA08521@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes:
>4. The latest powerpont is a cpu hog. To switch from title
>list to slide view and back seems to take on the order of
>the expononential of the number of slides. I suspect that
>the title list is built fresh each time using a bubble sort.
>We are collecting money to send a copy of Knuth's Sorting
>and Searching to the autheors. In general the software folks
>are consuming the increases in cpu power at an alarming
>rate, adding fluffy functionality and reducing robustness.
Or, as I once put it: the ability of hardware engineers to enhance
is far exceeded by the ability of software engineers to degrade
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