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Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2000 14:51:38 +0000
From: "ozan s. yigit" <oz@abyss.sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
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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
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freedom has a mental cost. -- peter roosen-runge