Isn't this basically Windows 1.0? All applications tiled onto fullscreen?

What goes around comes around...

There is another argument which is all too prevalent among enthusiastic language designers, that efficiency of object code is no longer important; that the speed and-capacity of computers is increasing and their price is coming down, and the programming language designer might as well take advantage of this.

This is an argument that would be quite acceptable if used to justify an efficiency loss of ten or twenty percent, or even thirty and forty percent. But all too frequently it is used to justify an efficiency loss of a factor of two, or ten, or even
more; and worse, the overhead is not only in time taken but in space occupied by the running program.

In no other engineering discipline would such avoidable overhead be tolerated, and it should not be in programming language design.

                                                    -- C.A.R. Hoare, 1973

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