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Totally agree, Andrew. In the late 1960s we were taught efficient programming by the CSIRO Division of Computing Research (long gone) and continued that through the early desktops and on to our own networked mini in the early 1980s. It seems to me that around about then software development, in terms of functionality, stopped in favour of bells and whistles. I think the gaming industry has a lot to do with it, demanding ever-faster hardware, ever-higher resolution graphics and mind-boggling Internet speeds, which have allowed lazy software providers to simply make cosmetic changes and slug their customers for endless “upgrades”. After being downsized from CSIRO I spent some years in public accounting and it infuriated me to see struggling small businesses paying out thousands of dollars a year to “maintain” their accounting software. Double-entry book keeping was invented in the 16th Century and the fundamentals have never been improved upon!
Cheers...................Kevin
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