Well, if they took Stefan's approach to coding 20 years ago, there wouldn't be a y2k problem, heh. Rick P.S. I know it's more involved than that, give it a rest. -----Original Message----- From: George Greer <greerga@circlemud.org> To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Languages >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Stefan Wasilewski wrote: > >>Besides, in a year we'll all have 1Ghz processors anyways, right? > >And if I want to run a MUD on a 486, then what? > >I do not like unnecessarily throwing out a large chunk of performance. >Little things that reduce performance to help readability, memory use, etc. >are things I typically do. They have a benefit, but I don't gratuitously >do it because "oh, you'll have a faster processor anyway." > >-- >George Greer +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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