“I can’t quite see why 216 times as much computing power still slows down and can’t keep up with my typing speed.”
It’s the programming language plus all of the bells and whistles. Back in the day, programs had to be tight and efficient because there wasn’t any room for fluff. Then computers got bigger and stronger and “C” took over the PC programming world. Then, computers got even bigger and stronger and along came Visual Basic to slow everything down again.
When I switched from the Lotus Suite of Products to the Microsoft Office Products my file sizes increased by at least a factor of 10 and the vast majority of that increase was due to Visual Basic.
Both “C” and Visual Basic are much easier to use and allow multitudes of programmers to program their little hearts out, but that flexibility and ease of use comes at the expense of efficiency.
