Well, if they took Stefan's approach to coding 20 years ago, there wouldn't
be a y2k problem, heh.
Rick
P.S. I know it's more involved than that, give it a rest.
-----Original Message-----
From: George Greer <greerga@circlemud.org>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Languages
>On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Stefan Wasilewski wrote:
>
>>Besides, in a year we'll all have 1Ghz processors anyways, right?
>
>And if I want to run a MUD on a 486, then what?
>
>I do not like unnecessarily throwing out a large chunk of performance.
>Little things that reduce performance to help readability, memory use, etc.
>are things I typically do. They have a benefit, but I don't gratuitously
>do it because "oh, you'll have a faster processor anyway."
>
>--
>George Greer
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