It seems to me that IT professionals spend an inordinate amount of time debugging problems that can be traced back to an anachronism in the way applications are built. The anachronism is the notion that disk space is more expensive than the person-hour cost of the poor customer installing the application. That used to be the case but is not the case any more.
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In a world where a gigabyte of disk space costs less than a cup of coffee, why do developers regularly spend hours of expensive time (drinking multiple cups of coffee) in order to sort out problems that only exist because of a misplaced desire to save a gigabyte of disk space?
This is interesting. I hadn't given it a lot of thought, but there's something to this. I'll have to ponder this before I come to a conclusion, but it certainly made me think...
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