Wirth's law

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
-- Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software".

I think this is something we here on /prog/ can clearly see. Programmers keep making things more and more complex/bloated shit for no good reason. Almost nobody cares about lean, fast, responsive, optimized software. Sad times.

>>1 think about it as demand-creation:
Without new software requirements the hardware would
not exists. Imagine a world with lean,hyper-efficient
software with minimal features, but same old hardware.
The cost to create new chips/videocards/cpus cannot
be justified until there is demand for it.
That where bloatware comes in, it can barely run on
current hardware, but some newest expensive system
can do it without a hitch. Suddenly this expensive
system is in demand, and companies begin targeting
bloatware market with cheaper system by competing on
price and features. Supply follows demands.
Intel wouldn't even exist if not for an obscure
calculator company they got to design a chip for.