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To further the education of mankind, Toby Inkster
Sure, I don't dispute that point. I think we're actually talking about 2
different levels of programmers here, anyway. My criticism was generally
directed at those programmers who do things "expediently" rather than
thoroughly and properly. A short while ago some kind of wp files were
being discussed wherein you could save a single word and still have
something like a 12k file on disc. I happen to know Wordstar never really
made the transition from DOS to Windows for that very reason.
1000 was just for the purposes of illustration. The array could
equally be stored at address 0, or 6, or 21890 -- it's not a matter
for the programmer to worry unduly about -- compilers tend to do a
pretty good job of slotting tonnes of integers, strings, arrays, etc
into memory with very little free space in between.
Sure, I don't dispute that point. I think we're actually talking about 2
different levels of programmers here, anyway. My criticism was generally
directed at those programmers who do things "expediently" rather than
thoroughly and properly. A short while ago some kind of wp files were
being discussed wherein you could save a single word and still have
something like a 12k file on disc. I happen to know Wordstar never really
made the transition from DOS to Windows for that very reason.