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They Don't Give A Damn If It Takes One-tenth The RAM, It Ain't What *they* Call "structured Code".
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They don't give a damn if it takes one-tenth the RAM,
It ain't what *they* call "structured code"...
-- from "The Sultans of Software"
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A hundred years from now, none of us will give a damn.
Takes a lot of RAM to make your floppy spin.