[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> humm, is this not M$'s thinking? I happen to be on a K5/100 atm, which
> runs zealos perfectly, and it's a lot easier than rebooting etc. Plex
> give such good advice when your OS seg's ;)
Sure; I have a P5-133. But replacing the m/b, CPU and RAM costs a heck of a
lot less than I paid for the system in the first place!!
>
> Which is not so say performance is unimportant; I think it sensible to
> choose
> tools that provide good productivity and to use them as efficiently as
>
> possible.
> personally I loath C++. it's bloated, slow, etc as people have said
> before. properly coded C will *always* beat the hell out of C++, even
> if it does take a little bit more code
A program that works is much more valuable than one that doesn't. I still go
for better code sooner, and press on to other features.
As to whether properly-written C outperforms C++, I leave that to others.
However, I did see someone say it's not necessarily so.
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