The Awesomeness of Power
Finally, today I see someone with similar views. See Programming is a Super Power.
You might have discovered that I too started with assembler on 8-bits. Survivors from that bygone era respect power, or rather the lack thereof. Some of us are stupid enough to always optimize every line of code in the head, mentally mapping the compiler output to IL to Intel opcode, notwithstanding that the entry-level CPU is running at a billion instructions per second in each of its four cores. Most of the time we are proven right, as any application beyond the trivial will become sluggish when one relaxes and indulge in "easy" code, no matter how BIPS you may have.
With today's hardware and the enormously rich class libraries, I am continuously thrilled by the amount of heavy lifting that a single line of innocuously looking code can do. It must be like flying a jumbo plane - little movements on the stick maneuver 350 tons just like that!
After a while, it becomes addictive!
You might have discovered that I too started with assembler on 8-bits. Survivors from that bygone era respect power, or rather the lack thereof. Some of us are stupid enough to always optimize every line of code in the head, mentally mapping the compiler output to IL to Intel opcode, notwithstanding that the entry-level CPU is running at a billion instructions per second in each of its four cores. Most of the time we are proven right, as any application beyond the trivial will become sluggish when one relaxes and indulge in "easy" code, no matter how BIPS you may have.
With today's hardware and the enormously rich class libraries, I am continuously thrilled by the amount of heavy lifting that a single line of innocuously looking code can do. It must be like flying a jumbo plane - little movements on the stick maneuver 350 tons just like that!
After a while, it becomes addictive!
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