Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Just like the early days of programming when you really had to manage your memory, often down to the last bit. Those were the days when programming was more difficult. Now it’s mostly just point and click for middle-schoolers.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m presuming you know nothing about programming because this is complete and utter nonsense.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.
However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven’t actually written any code in the 70’s and 80’s, but what I’ve heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.
Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a “bit extreme” its absolute nonsense
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A ZX-81 had 784 bytes of RAM. And no secondary memory.