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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcdac28207102750 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Ada95 speed Date: 1999/06/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 486065366 References: <7jafeo$6ps@lotho.delphi.com> <7jb2b4$6eq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Robert Dewar wrote: > > But in the old days, I often saw people write absolutely > appalling assembly language, so there is no immunity here from > incompetence :-) > I reacll reading somewhere a quote from Sir Clive Sinclair to the effect that as computers grow faster programmers bacmae lass and less professional, and stopped being aware of how things really work. Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il http://www2.cybericites.com/e/ehud