I also found this rather ammusing. I guess it comes down to the fact that you can buy a $50 used pentium which is probably 100 times faster than what this "insightful" programmer had (limited) access to in 1982. These days it matters very little in the real world if you shave a few (hundred) instructions off here and there (but there are exceptions however - before somebody flames me)

It regularly impresses me how cheep computer power is these days. To get to the moon in 1969 they used computers less powerful than a comadore 64 (a whole 64k or ram - wow). At this point I have to ask - what great achievements have I made with my computer - a 1.6GHz P4 which I can carry around (however if somebody wants to give me billions of dollars worth of funding I'm sure I could find a way to spend it).

As a side note, I think it's great that president bush has decided to go to the moon/mars, the $1 billion investment will be well worth while - if he stays there.

Laurence Bevan wrote:

Interestingly, this was written in 1982 by a Fortran programmer about
Pascal.

http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/real-progstory.html



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