On: Celebrating Niklaus Wirth's 80th Birthday

[tjaerv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

Wirth's law: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Sometimes paraphrased as: "Intel gives, Microsoft takes."

[gphilip → tjaerv]

The old form was: "Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

Referring to Andy Grove [1] of Intel and Bill Gates [2] of Microsoft.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove

[2] No link required

[tjaerv → gphilip]

Thanks for that, that's the best formulation.