Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> ::pet peeve:: As a programmer/analyst, I am immensely tired of todays
> point&click programmers who have no idea of the wasted overhead and bad
> code
> they generate when they let the interpreter/compiler generate the real
> code.
As a matter of prejudice, I tend to agree with you.  But rationally,
I know that assembly-language application programmers sang the exact
same tune when they saw whippersnappers coding in Fortran and Lisp and Cobol.

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