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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Compari
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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
In article <··········@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> ····@aiai.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes:
> As well as ignoring lots of other evidence that slow is often
> acceptable. Windows is pretty slow. People run Macs w/ the
> cache off. They use shells and other interpreters.
This is true. There are also people whp can't understand why anyone
would use Windows. I encountered one of them a few weeks ago, and it
was a while before they finally accepted by justification for using
Window, which was simply, "because I _can_". This seems to be a hard
concept for them to grasp.
I could also have said, "because I consider my time more important
than my machine's", but that's missing what I feel is the _real_
point, which is that I can do it if I choose to. It doesn't have
to be "optimal", esp since that word can be so hard to define in
this context.
Perhaps we should continue this by email, as I think we've reached
an old subject. ;-)
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