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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++)
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Date: 11 Apr 90 11:58:44 GMT
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In article <1990Apr10.151040.26800@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>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.

I disagree.  I consider people such as Chris Torek, Doug Gwyn, and Dennis
Ritchie to be "sophisticated users" (of the C language).  As far as I know,
all three try to write portable programs from the start; Doug has some
extremely "machine independent" routines which are rather portable (through
a liberal use of ifdef's, maybe, but they're still very portable).

Actually, the terminology may have been wrong, but not in the way you mean.
"Lazy" may have been a better word.

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