Date   : Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:15:46 +0200
From   : Annihilannic <annihilannic@...>
Subject: Re: Basic & BBC Basic

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Maybe the whole industry will just implode in a few years time due to lack of 
> talent?

What scares me is how many people in the IT industry now are unaware of 
the size of a byte.  To me a megabyte is still a hell of a lot of 
information.  And here I am looking after systems housing databases of 
plain old customer and order data that take up 4.5TB, and that's just 5 
years worth... it scares me to think how blasé programmers have become 
about the amount of data they casually throw into a database with no 
thought as to the expected lifetime of that data, and no automatic 
processes to clean it up when it's no longer required.

I think that's one good reason why programmers (or potential 
programmers) should be made to go back to basics (heheh) so that they 
can learn the value of a byte... and why they shouldn't attach a 4MB 
.BMP to an email... etc.

-- 
Annihilannic