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Article #1149Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++)
From: Jim Giles
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 07:40
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 07:40
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From article <9765@yunexus.UUCP>, by oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit): > [...] >>The _other_ problem here, of course, is that sophisticated users >>often don't care (at least, not at the time) about portability. > You are wrong. Oh? You have done a careful survey of large numbers of sophisticated users to back up this claim? I have worked in computing for over 18 years now and my job never carries me far from the consulting end of the field. I can tell you that sophisticated users tend to be 'full contact' programmers. That is, on a given machine they try to get the last ounce of performance out of the hardware. If they have to use non-portable features to do so, they do. J. Giles
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!lanl!lambda!jlg From: jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++) Message-ID: <14320@lambda.UUCP> Date: 10 Apr 90 07:40:51 GMT References: <9765@yunexus.UUCP> Lines: 15