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Monday, March 22, 2004

Why software still stinks: Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.

Salon (Liberal)

...While computer hardware seems to advance according to the exponential upward curve known as Moore's Law (doubling in speed -- or halving in cost -- every year or two), software, when it advances at all, seems to move at a more leisurely linear pace.

As Lanier said, "Software inefficiency can always outpace Moore's Law. Moore's Law isn't a match for our bad coding." ...
Posted by: Zayphar / 3/22/2004 12:19:00 AM


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