07 Aug 2009
The End of Bloatware?

We can only hope...

Twenty years ago, you wrote a program, metaphorically speaking, close to the metal. C programmers could manipulate data with great dexterity most of the time, and for those really tricky bits, you could always drop into assembler and delve right into the hardware. With today's Web-based applications and fancy coding libraries -- themselves prone to bloat -- you're writing several levels removed from the machine, and the opportunity to develop tight code, even if you wanted to, just ain't there. The whizz kids in the software houses of Bangalore could probably render a 3-D Flash image in their sleep but wouldn't know a JNE instruction if it came up and bit them.

(link) [Computerworld]

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