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  • General observation

    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 16 22:19:54 2023

    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Lowell Gilbert@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Wed Jul 19 20:25:23 2023
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    "It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will fit the axle in front of me."

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org on Fri Jul 21 13:09:47 2023
    Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    "It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
    than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will >fit the axle in front of me."

    "Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up
    dead code segments."
    -- Tharen
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Peter Trei@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Fri Jul 21 07:57:12 2023
    On Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 10:19:57 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    Let me introduce you to my friend, Procrustes.

    pt

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Fri Jul 21 20:12:06 2023
    In article <u9e02r$55v$1@panix2.panix.com>,
    Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
    Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    "It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
    than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
    fit the axle in front of me."

    "Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up >dead code segments."
    -- Tharen

    (Hal Heydt)
    Sigh... I was working as a programmer through the period when
    virtual memory came in, and specifically came in on IBM
    mainframes. Alas, far too many programmers reacted to the advent
    by assuming that program efficiency of space no longer mattered
    at all. And worse, that locality of reference had no use. Vast
    amounts of very, very bad, slow running code were written by
    people who didn't understand how vitual memory worked, and far
    too many of them were "experienced" programmers.

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  • From j.halpenny@rogers.com@21:1/5 to Dorothy J Heydt on Fri Jul 21 17:18:46 2023
    On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 4:25:56 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
    In article <u9e02r$55v$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
    Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
    Lowell Gilbert <lgus...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
    Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

    Found in a post on another newgroup:

    Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
    matter how good it is.

    "It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
    than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
    fit the axle in front of me."

    "Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up >dead code segments."
    -- Tharen
    (Hal Heydt)
    Sigh... I was working as a programmer through the period when
    virtual memory came in, and specifically came in on IBM
    mainframes. Alas, far too many programmers reacted to the advent
    by assuming that program efficiency of space no longer mattered
    at all. And worse, that locality of reference had no use. Vast
    amounts of very, very bad, slow running code were written by
    people who didn't understand how vitual memory worked, and far
    too many of them were "experienced" programmers.

    The first time I saw virtual memory was on a new Vax system at our service bureau. I had a 2000 x 2000 image array that was sorted by rows and needed to be organized by columns, so I wrote a very simple program with a loop that set b(j,i) - a(i,j). It
    worked perfectly, used a chargeable CPU time of 0.1 seconds, and an elapsed time of 5 hours. Every cycle was a cache miss. I was not popular.

    John

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