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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Contructive discussions on Apple future (Was:Re: (none))
Message-ID: <9909@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Mar 89 15:39:59 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <940@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
> - I just remember reading folks saying that they were not about
>to use the stdio package since it made their programs a minimum
>or 15k for hello world.

Yeah, one used to hear this bogus argument about UNIX stdio too.

There are indeed SOME applications where the overhead of stdio is
not a good tradeoff against its benefits.  A program that merely
prints "hello, world" is one of them.  But in a large application,
especially one that needs to run reasonably efficiently in a wide
variety of environments, stdio is indispensible.