Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 08:03 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to hollowone <=-

 Ni> One thing that I've found odd is that in some programming forums on
 Ni> Facebook & such, there have been some students asking questions and
 Ni> saying their instructor was having them use Borland Turbo C++ for DOS -
 Ni> And this was well into the 2010s.

Colleges are often behind the times on techology.  Mostly due to money.

When I got to college, my classes were on a Univac 1100/80 and during crunch
time, the computer could actually lose your parameters between the main program
and the subroutine.  Very frustrating - but got you to not wait until crunch
time to do your assignment.

But we also have a problem that I discovered at my previous company: Developers
who never had to use a resource constrained system.

Long story short: The developer pushed 10 lbs of junk though a process designed
to handle only 1 lb and gummed up the works.  The idea to ask if the process
would work for 10 lbs never entered his head.

For those of who worked on systems who's memory (RAM and Disk) were measured in
K, we have a habit of asking those questions.


.... "640K ought to be enough for anybody." (Bill Gates, 1981)
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