From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2353cc2ebdf8fc4a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-06 09:13:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C864E3F.EF025D97@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Gibson's vision of computer languajes References: <3C84057E.8020504@users.sf.net> <3C8503D9.30209@users.sf.net> <3C85AA9A.7050201@users.sf.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:13:35 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1015434834 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:13:54 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:13:54 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20871 Date: 2002-03-06T12:13:35-05:00 List-Id: > I'm happy when I get a program done in HLL, but I'm not satisfied. I'm > happy and satisfied if I get a program done in assembly and I know it's > the smallest/fastest thing I could create. I'm happy when I meet all the requirements and move on to something else. If the requirements are that it fit in 3K and execute in 10 milliseconds, I am not happy to be spending time making it fit in 2K or execute in 5 milliseconds. That's time that could be spent meeting additional requirements. To put it another way, I don't get a lot of pleasure fixing something that's not broken. (On the other hand, I have a fairly broad definition of 'broken') -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau