Stevens wrote: > I know that a lot of the software that I see now is a result of CASE > tools, which partially explains the bloat that all seem to have.
CASE tools are really a thing of the past. Seer*HPS, IBM AD/Cycle etc. are all long gone. I haven't seen a CASE tool mentioned anywhere for quite some time. (and I read the IEEE Spectrum, Computing and c't regularly). Modelling tools - Rational Rose and whathaveyou - are presumably still used quite a bit, at least in the OO world. > Nobody optimizes anymore. Why should they with memory being so cheap? There's no doubt that the amount of cheap memory and CPU available has brought about a lot of sloppy code. Mind you, the last major project I worked on (as a coder) was pure assembler - that was chosen for speed and availablity of system interfaces. And we're not even talking embedded stuff. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
