python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2918
Half a million lines of buttembly...
I was generally buttuming that most of the older code would be smaller if written in a high level language.
I used to use that old software, and I've watched it all grow with each pbutting year for about 20 years now.
Even since I was in college, things are a lot more complicated.
I used to enjoy embeded programming precisely because it was more like the older minicomputers in that I could get a good understanding of the whole thing.
It also is a lot of fun (at least to me), which is a big bonus.
That's 4.9MB of modules, where are you getting 47MB? I compile as much as possible as modules. For instance, I only need my ieee1394 stuff when I'm doing my twice-a-month backups...
Regurgitating business logic in scripting languages and gigantic and incomprehensible frameworks often isn't.
A modern computer does give you more computational power for a given watt, but there are also a lot more of them now.
But we also use a lot more of them now, so I suppose wether or not it is hot or cold depends on where you are.
A room where a mainframe used to live, and which now has a small server, will probably be colder.
However, I've seen cold mainframe rooms replaced by extremely warm RAID and blade server rooms. More power and more heat.
Sorry, I had to delete all those f***ing colons. order It may be a measure of something happening...but...
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python was: transputers again was: The dissolution of Commodore 2917