Re: what's a callback?

From: Frank Bemelman (f.bemelmanq_at_xs4all.invalid.nl)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:58:48 +0100

"Everett M. Greene" <mojaveg@mojaveg.iwvisp.com> schreef in bericht
news:20041222.79D0450.92C6@mojaveg.iwvisp.com...
> "Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanq@xs4all.invalid.nl> writes:
> > "Mike Monett" <no@spam.com> schreef
>
> > > I think part of the reason for code bloat is programmers have no
> > > restrictions on their code size or performance requirements. They
> > > should be given 200MHz Pentium computers with an 8 gig hard drive
> > > and 64 megs of ram. That would fix slow, bloated code real fast.
> >
> > Windows isn't bloated at all. There's just a lot of things to be dealt
> > with, but that happens so incredibly transparent to the casual observer,
> > that we take it all for granted and assume the code is bloated or
something.
>
> There's a difference between doing something because it can
> be done and doing something because it's needed. Microsoft
> can throw the problem of hardware resources over the wall
> to the users at no cost to themselves.

Nobody forces you to use the latest windows software. If DOS3.22
works for you, why upgrade?

> > > For example, my editor uses Borland SPRINT, which was last released
> > > in 1988 and was designed to run on an 8080 with 640k of ram. It
> > > handles 11 different types of files, including html, plain ascii,
> > > pascal, c, assembly, email, newsgroup postings, google groups, etc.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Of course, this style of thinking would probably put a lot of
> > > programmers and maybe some companies out of business. For some
> > > strange reason, making things overly complex is good for business.
> >
> > This style of thinking would probably kept us all back in 1988, the
> > release date of your editor ;)
>
> This is precisely the thinking that's needed and necessary
> for /embedded/ computing. Reliability and hardware resources
> are directly impacted by keeping things as simple as possible.

For simple middle-of-the-road embedded computing, yes. 

-- 
Thanks, Frank.
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