Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:24:17 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5048 On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:47:30 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Came across this item > >about how Evernote for Windows abandoned WPF and Dotnet when moving from I remember how DOS->Windows evolved recapitulating the evolution of mainframes, but requiring hundreds of times the amount of RAM for the same functionality. (we still don't have sequential lookahead double buffering we had back in the 16K machine days.) I think we are doing another round of this recapitulation with cellphones and PDAs. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com How long did it take after the car was invented before owners understood cars would not work unless you regularly changed the oil and the tires? We have gone 33 years and still it is rare to uncover a user who understands computers don't work without regular backups.