Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:16 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> >>> Think in terms of dollars instead of Mbytes here and it will make more >>> sense that nobody cares anymore. >> >> You ain't got no sense o' history or wonder, Les. > > Oh, the days of wooden computers and iron programmers... I've been *chuckle* > there, done that, and didn't like it much. Per-program memory bloat > doesn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of having dozens of > different shared libraries that all provide the same functionality but > aren't compatible and thus aren't actually shared (and worse, all have Yeah. And new languages every couple of years, now, that are the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread, and solve *all* your problems in creating a web page that you could have done in straight HTML.... <snip> mark