Stevens wrote:
I know that a lot of the software that I see now is a result of CASE tools, which partially explains the bloat that all seem to have.
CASE tools are really a thing of the past. Seer*HPS, IBM AD/Cycle etc. are all long gone. I haven't seen a CASE tool mentioned anywhere for quite some time. (and I read the IEEE Spectrum, Computing and c't regularly). Modelling tools - Rational Rose and whathaveyou - are presumably still used quite a bit, at least in the OO world.
Nobody optimizes anymore. Why should they with memory being so cheap?
There's no doubt that the amount of cheap memory and CPU available has brought about a lot of sloppy code. Mind you, the last major project I worked on (as a coder) was pure assembler - that was chosen for speed and availablity of system interfaces. And we're not even talking embedded stuff. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org