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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: programming quality vs. language
Message-ID: <20196@alice.att.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 02:17:58 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.040351.24299@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:

> A number of professionals use g++ and other tools that (for some
> purposes at least) are not expensive.

You miss the point.

People with money to spend will sometimes spend it on expensive tools
and sometimes not.  People without much money to spend probably
won't buy expensive tools.

This will bias the population in a particular direction, even
though there may be some exceptions.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com