Knew I wasn't quite there, thanks Tony. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Arnold Sent: 12 November 2007 23:23 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloatware was memory lane
Ian, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi Norman > > Yes, when I think back to my Beeb days and the Inter suite of office > applications on clever 64k ROMs, against today's Office applications - Open > Office org is 108Mb for a Windows installation, 135Mb for Linux, I do really > wonder what's happened. > > Some of the bloat is down to increased feature sets, and better more > efficient (?) ways of doing things and of course wysiwyg. > > However, I wonder how much bloat would disappear if developers had to go > back to programming in machine language and not through a nice interpreted > language like C, Python, Java etc Minor point, but C is compiled, not interpreted. And Java is compiled into a virtual machine byte code which is then interpreted! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
