Re: It's come a long way...
Bloat... Yes, software is a gas. It will expand to completely fill any volume.
A new hire observed my gray hair and similarly aging HP-12C and -48S calculators and started yapping about the glories of modern software. I told him, "Yes, when I started this game in the 80's, PCs were new. Really new. The only real applications I had were games, word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation software, and a comms package so I could get my email and hit the bulletin board service - kind of like a web browser, but without the decent pr0n"
And he starts saying, "Uh, today we now have. Hmm. Better pr0n?"
"Definitely"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
