From -5175494847642119866 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,3e2ef0fb33ac1f0f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-11-26 10:00:42 PST Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: design by committee (was: templates and exceptions in g++?) Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 90 18:00:42 GMT References: <1016@zinn.MV.COM> <1990Nov23.211727.2802@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov25.161506.9659@tsa.co.uk> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 18 Posted: Mon Nov 26 19:00:42 1990 In-reply-to: domo@tsa.co.uk's message of 25 Nov 90 16:15:06 GMT domo> I'm sorry if that sounds like an ethnic slur, but, as Henry says, domo> equipment which talks using an 8-bit character set such as ISO Latin 1 domo> is an obvious (minimum) requirement for program development. Any domo> software shop which shackles its staff to inadequate hardware deserves domo> every bit of productivity that it fails to get out of them. I dunno... Maybe trigraphs were a good idea, they are not too hard to implement in a compiler, but they are absolutely *miserable* to use. Maybe the idea was to make using them hurt so much that people would upgrade their obsolete systems? :-):-):-) -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+