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To: Steve Porter who wrote (41713)	11/18/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1572631

<A lot of programmers today have no idea about tight code. I believe that anyone who is learning to code in school today should be forced at some point to spend an entire semister programming on a Commodore 64.. then they will learn about clock-counts and the like.> Steve, those days of programming are over, unless you want to plan a house by worrying about every single nail and screw. These days, structured programming takes precedence over tight assembly code. The most important thing about programming is not that it's tight, optimized, and fast, but that it's easy to read, maintain, and debug. Only afterwards do you make the code fast in the places where it counts. The big problem these days isn't code bloat, but feature creep. Just ask Microsoft, the king of feature creep. By using coding practices that emphasizes time-to-market over stability and maintainability, they've earned the negative reputation that they now have to endure. As for tight, optimized code, the emphasis these days is to shift all that over to the compiler. This allows the programmer to concentrate on the bigger picture and stick to structured programming techniques. Tenchusatsu

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