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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Types
Message-ID: <2311@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 20:32:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 20:32:40 1987
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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In article <279@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>Anyway, It is a serious presumption on the part of the compiler vendors to
>place the burden of groping through the manual (or disassembling the
>compiler) on the occasional user, the application porter.  The guy doing
>development on the box can more reasonably be expected to become intimate
>with its compiler.

I must disagree.  The default compiler settings should cater neither to
professionals porting code, nor to professionals doing local development,
but to the occasional or novice programmer, who is trying to get his newly
written, probably small, program to run.

Professionals should expect to do the work necessary to learn how to use
their tools to perform the functions they want them to perform.  The tools
should cater to the novices, without putting an excessive burden on the pro.
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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