Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Tjoff Tjonk" <tjoff@tjonk.now>]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:44:59 -0400, jeff findley wrote:

> "Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> writes:
>> The truth is powerful computers are much cheaper than paying for quality
>> programming.  If you are Micro$loth you get others to pay for your bad
>> programming and they have to buy the new computers to run the new poor
>> quality software to run it on since the older computers don't have the
>> "horse-power".  Of course we sent men to the moon using computers with less
>> "horse-power" than the IBM-PC (8088).  I admit that the astronauts did not
>> need to use MS Word though.
> 
> Even more impressive is the hardware that sent them to the moon and
> back was mostly designed by guys with sliderules rather than the 
> scientific calculators that computers have largely replaced today.

Most of us agree with that this was a very impressive feat, but it did
cost enormous amounts of money....