"thefrostbyte" wrote in message
...

We have, today, virtually unlimited computing power and space. And yet
the
programs that we are getting from everywhere, it seems, are bigger,
sloppier,
and more poorly written than my first attempt at SPSII.

My degree is in Computer Science and I've been programming for a while as
well. It's the very fact that computers are so powerful and storage so
cheap that makes programmers sloppy. I think you're correct that code
makers aren't interested in "elegant" or even "correct", given how many
security patches get issued.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]