[ubuntu-uk] Bloatware was memory lane

[Neil Greenwood]

On 12/11/2007, Ian Pascoe <softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi Norman
> [snip]
> However, I wonder how much bloat would disappear if developers had to go
> back to programming in machine language and not through a nice interpreted
> language like C, Python, Java etc
>

Quite a lot of the bloat would disappear, but it would be replaced by
a load more bugs, given today's marketing-driven deadlines (my boss
asked me the other day: "How long will this take, bearing in mind I
know when it needs to ship?") and the write-only nature of
assembler...

Hwyl,
Neil.