Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:53:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

That depends on how often the program is used. Certain commercial
programs that are widely used are a lot slower than they should be due
to stupidity in the design producing an inefficient bloatware solution.
It is always a risk in the time to market versus performance tradeoff.

On time, on budget, on spec - pick any two for hardware. You are lucky
to get one of these on target with the average software house.

Yes. Most programming, as a process, is broken.

Only if you look at it from a technical or academic perspective. From a
business perspective, the process is quite well tuned.

Like anything, performance and reliability are worth whatever the market
is willing to pay for them, no more and no less. If the market prefers
cheap crap over paying for quality, you get cheap crap.

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