I can understand. I have been coding since 1973 and first used
'on-line' computing in '77. I remember coding on PDP8-10, and
using punch tape to feed the things. I remember trying to reduce
the size of 'working' code. So those same rules followed even
today when I have to turn out a commercial product under MFC (YUK!!),
and such. But, slowly, we are turning clients to Linux. But, I agree
that the 'keep it small and cross platform portable' is the rule.
Herman
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I was writing code for maximum portablity on Unix and other systems 8
> or 9 years ago, and not striving to make it the smallest that could be
> achived, though 15 years ago I can remember sweating how small I could
> make it to cram stuff under the 640k line, and cursing Bill's name for
> introducing the damned line in the first place. Even then, though, I
> *also* had to make it work on systems from IBM mainframes to
> minicomputers.
>
> I was also reading usenet 18 years ago . . .
>
> Can't say my programming life is all that different today . . .
