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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses
Message-ID: <7376:Apr1102:35:5590@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 02:35:55 GMT
References: <9765@yunexus.UUCP> <14320@lambda.UUCP> <1990Apr10.151040.26800@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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X-Original-Subject: Re: Relationship between C and C++

In article <1990Apr10.151040.26800@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
> In article <14320@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> >From article <9765@yunexus.UUCP>, by oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit):
    [ Somebody writes: ]
     [ sophisticated users often don't care about portability ]
> >> You are wrong.
> >Oh?  You have done a careful survey of large numbers of sophisticated users
> >to back up this claim?
> Mr. Giles is right here. Mr. Yigit has his terminology wrong -
> the people he refers to as "sophisticated" are better described as
> "politically correct" members of the elite CS fraternity, those
> inhabiting ivory towers.

Hmmm. I find myself caring about portability most of the time, simply
because I skip around between machines a lot. Does this make me a
``politically correct member of the elite CS fraternity?'' I hope not.

---Dan