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

[jeff findley <jeff.findley@no.sdrc.spam.com>]

"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.

Jeff
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