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To: Doren who wrote (92279)	2/18/2010 4:05:14 PM
From: Stock Puppy	of 213176

You must be a young'un. "Size doesn't matter" - may or may not be true for other matters, it is a truism for software. Remember that most of today's software is bloat. Using correct techniques and programming languages it is possible fit an tremendous amount of processing into what we today consider very little memory. Looking at how today's software works if it was an interaction between people: In the past Fred would give Alice the damn apples directly in just a couple of steps. Now with object oriented even for things that don't require it, you got all this etiquette going on. Fred: Hi John, my name is Fred! John: Your name is Fred. Fred: Correct my name is Fred. Fred: I need to give something to Alice. John; you need Alice Fred: Yes I need Alice John: what do you want to give to Alice? Fred: I have 5 apples for Alice John: There are 5 apples that you need to give to Alice. Fred: Correct John: I need to make sure Alice is here. Fred: Yes. John: Alice are you here? ..... ...and so on... ..... Fred: Here Alice, take these 5 apples I have for you Alice: Give me the apples. (Now to deviate off topic for fun): Programmer used the code here that doesn't check bounds and so Alice doesn't realize her hands are full of pears. Fred gives Alice the apples. Alice can't hold the apples because she is holding pears. They fall to the floor causing buffer overrun. Now you can use your own ending: 1) The apples falling to the floor triggers an interrupt alarm, security runs in to access the situation and they wouldn't leave - thus and you have the blue screen of death. 2) Alice Fred and John don't realize that the floor has these apples, they step on them but some of those apples are malicious and have worms which start eating everything in sight. Yeah I know - but hey now they have books like "The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology" so ....

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