MOTM

synth1@... writes:

>>IN 27 YEARS seen a bigger pile of s**t in my life as the horror these C++
loving, JAVA-writing, RAM-sucking,
I-need-300MB-on-your-drive<<

I just logged on and saw this.  You have captured my feelings exactly.  
Lately I have been thinking that if computers keep going in the direction 
they are now, in 5 years they will be totally unusable.  I have seen early 
small, fast, tight and clean applications turn into mega RAM hogging, bug 
ridden, litter your hard drive with 5000 files, slow as molasses C++ pieces 
of crap.  And those applications run on top of operating systems that are 
programmed the same way.  It's a disaster.  I used to get so pissed off at my 
Macs that I almost threw one out a 2nd story window.  Then I had to get more 
into PCs.  The problems increased 10 fold.  Now I would like to see a Timothy 
McVeigh like bombing of Microsoft.  And yes, I would like to see lives lost.

>>Anyone remember NightRanger pinball for the Apple? 1,872 BYTES!!! THE WHOLE 
)<<

Apple ][.  Simple to use, didn't bomb out, bug free programs, booted up many 
times faster than todays computers, basic ROM bios/monitor/disassembler was 
only 2K, extended Applesoft basic only 10K,  entire disk operating system 
only 14K.

Things can be done the easy way:
variable=5;

Or the hard way:
#include  CustomNonStandardVariableTypes.h
iUgly_vAriable_tooLong=(unsigned long)(**pVariable_Unreadable-> 
&hData_Hard_To_Retrieve: Array[index].Element_Somewhere);

-Elhardt