On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:09:22AM +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: > This reminds me of http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Good story! Imagine how Mel must have known the entire program by heart and he never got any change requests that are so common today. I would have been addicted to that, too. But luckily 1975 was 8 years before my birth and so I started "hacking" with QBasic Gorillaz, a turn based strategy game. I guess with SSE it still today makes sense to count instruction delays and throughput. Also take a look at this: http://research.scee.net/files/presentations/gcapaustralia09/Pitfalls_of_Object_Oriented_Programming_GCAP_09.pdf I don't think people like this programmer Mel are job-less today. -- Marco
