Re: Kat's 8bit sequences
Dan Moyer wrote:
>
> irv mullins wrote:
> > I learned a long time ago two things about programming:
> >
> > 1. I could manipulate many megs of data using only a few hundred bytes of
> > memory.
> > 2. I would be an idiot to try to do it that way.
> >
> > Why take weeks to create a slow, complex, probably bug-ridden program when
> > you can throw cheap hardware at the problem and get the results much
> > quicker,
> > with less chance for errors, using a simple script?
>
> Because what "cheap" hardware means to one person may mean unaffordably
> expensive to another, and their TIME may be much more easily spent?
>
> Dan
I think any reasonable person would understand that if they are asking you
to massage gigabytes of data, there should be at least a few hundred
dollars provided to buy appropriate hardware.
Somewhat easier to come up with that than a few thousand dollars for
programmers' time.
If you are doing this without funding on discarded old hardware,
and your time is worthless, and there's no profit to be made, then it's
a hobby, so whatever works...
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