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

Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:

> >Well, the benefits of a new technology are best measured by the amount
> of
> >novel laziness it allows!
>
> ::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.
Knowing that compilers aren't too efficient is very good alright, but writing
everything in ASCII isn't really a realistic alternative, is it? Or am I
misunderstanding you? "Point&click" doesn't really seem to fitting to my
(amateurish) programming habits.

                                                           Andreas

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