Leif Strand wrote:
Even for silly stuff -- like when somebody runs out of disk space: "don't waste your time cleaning the junk off your hard drive -- we'll just buy you a new, bigger one."
Well, it sounds silly, but it does actually make commercial sense. As a contractor who charges time and materials, sometimes I have to catch myself and step back and look at the "silly stuff" in terms of hours of my time - it doesn't take more than a few hours of my time wasted before the real cost starts to become significant...
Especially when coding in C/C++, sometimes I have to remind myself that computers are a zillion times faster now; that it is a waste of my time to micro-optimize the routine I happen to be staring at.
Heh, certainly true for PC applications, but for the odd job we're still using 8051's, and it _can_ still sometimes need that attention to detail!
Thankfully, programming in a language like Python somehow frees my mind from such thoughts. (I've found it's best not to think about how the Python interpreter is implemented. Like what they say about sausages.)
LOL! Regards, -- | Mark McDougall | "Electrical Engineers do it | <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> | with less resistance!"