Friday, November 26, 2010
Misconceptions
I just started reading Machine Language for Beginners, which looks pretty good, but it had this gem in the introduction:
"ML can use up about as much memory as BASIC does when accomplishing the same task. Short programs can be somewhat more compact in ML, but longer programs generally use up bytes fast in both languages. However, worrying about using up computer memory is quickly becoming less and less important. In a few years, programmers will probably have more memory space available than they will ever need."
Oh, who was it that said that programmers will always adapt to use up all the available memory?
¶ 4:59 PM
