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To: Steve Porter who wrote (41719)11/18/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572605
 
Steve - Re: " This will teach them the how to squeeze every last drop of performane out of a computer and will only help the industry
in the long run. "

I agree with your purpose and even concur about "forced" coding requirements for 64 KiloByte code.

However, even if this did happen, the current wave of Code-Bloat-Get-The-Product-Out-As-Fast-As-Possible will "corrupt" all but the most dedicated programmers.

Paul



To: Steve Porter who wrote (41719)11/18/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Respond to of 1572605
 
Re: "No, my argument for using the Commodore 64 as a learning tool is that today's programmers are by and large sloppy when they write code"

True, that's why Russian programmers are some of the best in the world--they learned to program on computers still using vacuum tubes.

Kevin


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