In <[email protected]>, on 07/20/2010
at 08:01 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said:
>I've seen other "old" programs with many hard-coded offsets and
>lengths and always wondered why this was such common practice back
>then.
>Was it because there were a lot of inexperienced assembler
>programmers writing code? Was it because people thought the platform
>would not last and treated every program as a "throw away"? Was it
>due to limitations in the assembler itself?
It was a combination of inexperienced programmers, poor training,
tunnel vision and a philosophy of "Après moi, le déluge."
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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