Bad Programming

 Subject: Re: Computers in Science Fiction 
From: Steve Taylor 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, alt.history.future, rec.arts.sf.science  rec.arts.sf.written

> howard wrote:
> I have been using computers since 1969. Some of the programs I 
> wrote in the 70's are still running.

Bummer. Have you tried moving variable initialisations out of inner
loops? That can speed things up a bit...