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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
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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