Re: [Nolug] Introducing myself

Ron, you sound like a friend of mine. He is constantly preaching to
me how much more math I should learn to write better programs. The
only thing I can say is:

What is the real world benefit for me to write a program that runs 20%
to 300% 'faster'. When 50% of the current speed is more then enough?

You can argue resource management all day long. However I take those
things into consideration. Most of my programs have very limited
client side footprints. I know throwing more hardware at a
performance issue is barbaric. But I have not had to go there yet.
We have SO MUCH head room on our infrastructure for our current
customer base... I can't see a reason to spend time making it more
efficient when I could spend time adding useful (to humans) code
instead.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 12/06/08 15:07, Friedrich Gurtler wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Python is a great learning scripting language, but new programmers *need*
>>> to know the hardware. Assembly programming, preferably in MS-DOS or
>>> CP/M,
>>> would be best.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Indeed, and don't let them get near a database before they have written
>> their own database engine. I mean, that might lead them to write something
>> less than perfectly optimal. We couldn't have that.
>
> What stupidity.
>
> Having to write rather complete binary tree and hash libraries has greatly
> aided me as a DBA, even though I've never had to use such a hand-rolled
> library in 20+ years.
>
>> Slide rules forever! =P
>
> Everyone on this list who lived thru Katrina know how dependent upon
> technology that Americans have become.
>
> Knowing how to use slide rules and magnetic compasses, read a map, start
> fires without matches, etc, etc are all very useful skills.
>
> --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
> How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
> What different abilities do I have?
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