Programming

I fell the same way as this person who wrote this peace! Bob Mercer..................

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/ By Randell Hyde..........................................

The production of high-performance personal computers over the past two decades has enabled the creation of some amazing
software products. However, a common complaint users have with modern software is "despite the fact that machines have gotten
faster, software seems to be getting slower." A large part of this problem is that programmers are no longer challenged to produce
quality applications. High-performance computer systems allow programmers to get away with writing sloppy code and still achieve
an acceptable performance level. There are two problems with this approach:

* Programmers, rather than users (and purchasers of computer systems), are the beneficiaries of improvements in computer architecture.
Faster CPUs allow programmers to write sloppier code while still maintaining the performances levels acceptable on previous generation CPUs.

* Programmers who don't have to work at writing great code, never learn how to write great code (or if they originally knew, their skills atrophy from disuse).

A huge problem today is that many programmers have grown up with high-performance machines and have never learned how to
write decent code in the first place. Unfortunately, advances in computer architecture are no longer doubling CPU performance every
couple of years as they have in the past. Therefore, today's programmers can no longer get away with writing slow code and expecting
advances in computer architecture to rescue them a few years hence.

The Write Great Code series is intended to help rectify this problem by teaching the forgotten art of crafting well-designed, efficient, software.

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