Re: design by committee (was: templates and exceptions in g++?)

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From: Tom Horsley
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 1990 18:00

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domo> I'm sorry if that sounds like an ethnic slur, but, as Henry says,
domo> equipment which talks using an 8-bit character set such as ISO Latin 1
domo> is an obvious (minimum) requirement for program development.  Any
domo> software shop which shackles its staff to inadequate hardware deserves
domo> every bit of productivity that it fails to get out of them.

I dunno... Maybe trigraphs were a good idea, they are not too hard to
implement in a compiler, but they are absolutely *miserable* to use.  Maybe
the idea was to make using them hurt so much that people would upgrade their
obsolete systems? :-):-):-)
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