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by hota_mazi 2148 days ago
> 1995 was the year in which programmers stopped thinking about the quality of their programs.

-yawn-

Prove it.

The number of books and articles about the quality of software engineering published in the past 25 years certainly seems to prove we care a great deal about code quality. Probably more than we ever did prior to 1995 when Pascal, BASIC, FORTAN, COBOL, and self-modifying assembly code were being taught in colleges.

As for the point of the article, that hardware doesn't accelerate as fast as programs using it, same challenge: prove it.

This article is all handwaving and speculation with no data to support any of its claims.