null references redux + Looney Tunes

[language_fan]

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:16:05 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier thusly wrote:

> I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl
> because its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with
> older computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5
> minutes between any two mouse clicks.

Your $3k computer can probably run about 7200 billion instructions in 5 
minutes - it will eventually get old in the coming years. I really hope 
the bloat in various software components never gets that bad that you 
would have to wait 5 minutes between two mouse clicks!