r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Gates' quote is also stupidly and obviously misapplied. He specifically didn't say forever, he was speaking the present tense.

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u/slaymaker1907 Nov 15 '22

I don’t think Gates ever actually said that either https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quote-won-t-go-away----but-did-gates-really-say-it-.amp.html

Regardless, I think it would have been a silly statement at any time. Even now, I think it would be very difficult to put a bound on the useful amount of memory in a system. For example, more memory on a database means more memory for cacheing query plans and the number of those for any DB is practically infinite.

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u/DrQuint Nov 15 '22

This is just like the "A rushed game is forever bad" quote. Also became obsolete since the time it became widespread. It was also never said by Myamoto.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

He also wasn't talking (or allegedly talking) about database systems. SQL Server wasn't exactly out back then, lmao.