[geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2008/01/31 Thu PM 11:44:03 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java

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>When I used to work with EDI files, they were all files of fixed  
>length records.
>
>Easy to parse, and very efficient to process.
>
>XML is hard to parse and highly inefficient.
>
>I love progress...

But that is so '70s - kids these days don't understand why they should use 
something so un-extensible ;^) As a side note, they also don't understand who 
keeps buying those silly, out-dated mainframes - I mean seriously, they are so 
huge (but you can run Linux on them ;^).

I think it comes down to kids these days (and by kids I mean recent CS 
graduates) have literally no sense of scale - I think they spend all of their 
time working on little tiny "scratch my personal itch" software solutions and 
no class they take ever explains to them how to optimize software for 
literally millions and millions of iterations, communication over anything 
other than an idle 100 Mb/sec ethernet connection, or meeting the requirements 
of a varied user community (just their professor or TA).

Lionel