“Please change MOV AX,0 to XOR AX,AX. You save bytes. Also, please use shift operators instead of divisions. You save on cycles” Common speak during the days of DOS and protected mode coding – when C and ASM worked hand in hand. Then came the ‘abstract high level programmers’ who never really cared about declaring an int where only a byte is needed, or use multiple structs where a union would suffice.Then came the ‘Object Oriented’ programmers who never really cared for understanding how virtual functions really worked or how they affected performance and/or size and used it pretty much everywhere without blinking an eye.Then came the visual programmers who would love to drag and drop ‘graphic objects’ that would increase productivity by 150% and reduce time to market by 300% ! Woo haa. It’s another matter that each ‘visual object’ generated 300-500 lines of gob.Then there was XML & buddies – the whoopie-doo do it all markup language for representing anything.And DHTML and Javascript to add funky effects and client side programming to increase ‘web interface coolness’.Then came the idea of using the Internet for communications !Then came SIP, a great text based protocol, which generates anything between 500-1000

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