The idea is to get developers to build lean, specific function applications for netbooks. The problem in the past 10 years is the lack of lean clean code. Hardware has greatly improved but coding simply responds by producing applications that are becoming bigger and slower - using hardware to improve the user experience. Vista is a perfect example. Writing an application that is useful and responsive on an ultra low power PC is not a common skill lately. Its the older programmers that have the advantage, starting out with assembler that needs to work in 64K of RAM. A back to basics effort is needed to provide inexpensive or free software for cheap, utilitarian PCs.
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The idea is to get developers to build lean, specific function applications for netbooks. The problem in the past 10 years is the lack of lean clean code. Hardware has greatly improved but coding simply responds by producing applications that are becoming bigger and slower - using hardware to improve the user experience. Vista is a perfect example. Writing an application that is useful and responsive on an ultra low power PC is not a common skill lately. Its the older programmers that have the advantage, starting out with assembler that needs to work in 64K of RAM. A back to basics effort is needed to provide inexpensive or free software for cheap, utilitarian PCs.