Why on earth should a program that only decodes and displays .PDF files run to 96.6 megabytes of programming?
When I started in computing disk space was at a premium and programs were written as economically as possible.
I had MSDos 3 (operating system), Wordstar (text word processor), Multiplan (spreadsheet) and DBase II (database) together with all my data files on one 720kb floppy disk with room to spare. We didn't even have hard discs in our computers.
Those were the days when programmers knew their stuff.
Any comments from other oldies?
2006-08-21 04:43:57 · 4 answers · asked by David74 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I agree and it takes a long time to load too.
2006-08-21 04:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by rscanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right, it seems to happen with all companies. Some technical guy creates something mean and lean and starts a company. If it is successful, marketing people take over and the decline begins.
"We should add these must have's", "We should use C, so our program runs on all CPU's", "If we do not have 32bit color/16/32/64 bits/Unicode we will not be able to sell", "We can not sell without supporting FPU/multi processor/multi core", "We should use OOP/Design Patterns/UML/Agile development methods" and so on...
That's why the future is open source software. That simply dies when it becomes too complicated.
2006-08-21 17:53:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I almost hate upgrading my software because every new release is a larger systems and diskspace hog than it's predessor. Part of the reason these programs are such hogs is to include security features (i.e. make it hack proof so people have to purchase their software) and to make improvements. (the gui interface.)
What's even worse is when you have to pay for software that are hogs. Can anybody say "m i c r o s o f t"?
2006-08-21 11:58:39 · answer #3 · answered by gtn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adobe can become seriously bloated. I use FoxIt reader...it it faster and doesn't get as big as Adobe Reader does.
2006-08-21 11:52:14 · answer #4 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋