Found in a post on another newgroup:

Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
matter how good it is.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
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Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:

> Found in a post on another newgroup:
>
> Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
> matter how good it is.

"It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
fit the axle in front of me."

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:
>
>> Found in a post on another newgroup:
>>
>> Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
>> matter how good it is.
>
>"It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
>than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
>fit the axle in front of me."

"Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up
dead code segments."
-- Tharen
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 10:19:57 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
> Found in a post on another newgroup:
>
> Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
> matter how good it is.

Let me introduce you to my friend, Procrustes.

pt

In article <u9e02r$55v$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>>Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> Found in a post on another newgroup:
>>>
>>> Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
>>> matter how good it is.
>>
>>"It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
>>than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
>>fit the axle in front of me."
>
>"Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up
>dead code segments."
> -- Tharen

(Hal Heydt)
Sigh... I was working as a programmer through the period when
virtual memory came in, and specifically came in on IBM
mainframes. Alas, far too many programmers reacted to the advent
by assuming that program efficiency of space no longer mattered
at all. And worse, that locality of reference had no use. Vast
amounts of very, very bad, slow running code were written by
people who didn't understand how vitual memory worked, and far
too many of them were "experienced" programmers.

On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 4:25:56 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <u9e02r$55v$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
> Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
> >Lowell Gilbert <lgus...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> >>Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> writes:
> >>
> >>> Found in a post on another newgroup:
> >>>
> >>> Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't
> >>> matter how good it is.
> >>
> >>"It's not that I like reinventing the wheel, exactly, but sometimes it's easier
> >>than checking out all the wheel shops in the world to find something that will
> >>fit the axle in front of me."
> >
> >"Now that we have virtual memory, I never need to worry about cleaning up
> >dead code segments."
> > -- Tharen
> (Hal Heydt)
> Sigh... I was working as a programmer through the period when
> virtual memory came in, and specifically came in on IBM
> mainframes. Alas, far too many programmers reacted to the advent
> by assuming that program efficiency of space no longer mattered
> at all. And worse, that locality of reference had no use. Vast
> amounts of very, very bad, slow running code were written by
> people who didn't understand how vitual memory worked, and far
> too many of them were "experienced" programmers.

The first time I saw virtual memory was on a new Vax system at our service bureau. I had a 2000 x 2000 image array that was sorted by rows and needed to be organized by columns, so I wrote a very simple program with a loop that set b(j,i) - a(i,j). It worked perfectly, used a chargeable CPU time of 0.1 seconds, and an elapsed time of 5 hours. Every cycle was a cache miss. I was not popular.

John