Re: 6502 Programming Is Not Interested?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bryan Parkoff wrote:

>    I have noticed that a lot of programmers are not interested to program
>6502 anymore.  They move to program on Intel and PowerPC and other
>processors.  Please advise.

Actually, interest in the 6502 has been falling off pretty constantly
for almost two decades, if you are just counting.

The people who remain interested are usually interested because
they enjoy solving problems in a resource-constrained environment--
kind of like solving puzzles, only more creative.  ;-)

If you hunger for more megabytes of RAM, and fashioning "solutions"
by grafting two or three 8MB programs together to do something that
could be done in 24KB at 1/500th the clock speed, then the mainline
platforms are your thing...  ;-)

The age of art and craft in programming is over, except for a few
stawarts who work by night.  Market pressure has ensured the
victory of the "cobble it together in a hurry" crowd.

As I have always said, "Quick and dirty is never quick, but
always dirty."

-michael

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