Wed 28 Dec 2005
I want to get Eric Smith ‘99 (and other Ephs) interested in my cool open source quantitative finance software project. But all he wants to work on is his stinkin’ puzzles! So it goes.
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December 28th, 2005 at 10:33 am
As an oldster who graduated from Williams the year that MicroSoft was founded (yes, that was the company’s official spelling in its early days), I find it interesting that Eric can ponder and write such code at home in his spare time. It wasn’t always so.
Thirty years ago, only a programmer with access to an IBM mainframe at work (e.g., an IBM 370/168, which cost $1 million+, measured 6′x18′x8′, required an air conditioned room, and used a lot of electricity) could have mused through the problem in a similar way. Today, Eric’s probably using a Pentium 4, which cost around $1,200, measures 1′x2′x2′, and sits next to his desk.