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From: goer@SOPHIST.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: condemning
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Date: 22 Jan 90 05:14:57 GMT
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Recent point:

> My point is that condemning C for a shortcoming in the library
> routines is not really fair.  Especially when the problem could
> be fixed in a few days hacking.

I never got the impression that anyone was condemning C.  Aren't
you overreacting a bit?  Whether or not the poster was correct in
this instance, it does seem that making C behave like Icon often
does result in very poor performance.  Granted, you can often go
down some by-way, and come up with a new Iconish library routine
that will outperform Icon itself.  But this is the very sort of in-
convenience that Icon was intended to help us avoid.  It's a trade-
off.  Name your poison.
-Richard