From: "ozan s. yigit" <oz@abyss.sun.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:51:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ya0ou2d2pfox.fsf@abyss.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8m6dhf$74d$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
ghudson@mit.edu (Greg Hudson) writes:
> Where's the horror here? Computers are fast. Pushing extra work on
> programmers and creating an unnecessary portability issue is a high
> cost.
alas these costs are not calculated on ones armchair easily. i would say
that in my industry experience, we pay high porting and maintenance cost
for code that does not pay enough attention to its includes or screws
around with many nested ifdefs, especially for products on multiple
architectures. [ymmv, especially if you have all the time
in the world.]
oz
---
freedom has a mental cost. -- peter roosen-runge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-03 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-31 15:15 rob pike
2000-08-01 8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 12:12 ` Howard Trickey
2000-08-02 9:11 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 14:31 ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-08-01 16:03 ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-01 16:32 ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-01 17:05 ` James A. Robinson
2000-08-02 9:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-02 9:11 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-03 14:51 ` ozan s. yigit [this message]
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2000-08-02 9:47 forsyth
2000-08-02 9:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-01 17:06 Russ Cox
2000-08-02 8:32 ` Bruce G. Stewart
2000-08-01 16:27 rob pike
2000-08-02 10:53 ` Ralph Corderoy
2000-08-01 16:26 rob pike
2000-08-02 21:49 ` Steve Simon
2000-08-01 13:35 rob pike
2000-08-01 18:34 ` Greg Hudson
2000-08-02 9:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 13:06 rob pike
2000-08-01 13:10 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-01 12:55 rob pike
2000-08-02 9:39 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-01 6:04 Russ Cox
2000-08-01 5:42 Russ Cox
2000-07-31 17:09 Russ Cox
2000-07-31 15:57 jmk
[not found] <djhender@telusplanet.net>
2000-07-31 14:53 ` Doug Henderson
2000-07-31 17:38 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-07-31 20:10 ` Steve Simon
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