William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> This the multi-hundred-megabyte applications that do about the same
> thing as those apps I used to run from 40Mbyte disks..

Sort of. Programmers are probably not more stupid than the group here,
on average -- and there's a reason for everything :)

If you compare in detail the apps you used to run from 40MB disks with
the apps today, you probably notice some important differences. Some of
them are related to the increase in code size. Many of these are related
to a distinctive increase in user-friendliness. The amount of
programming that goes into a good UI is tremendous; it usually outweighs
the actual function by magnitudes (unless you consider the UI part of
the function, of course -- which has merit).

Gerhard
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