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From: Jeff Miller <jmiller@probe.net>
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/20
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The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96 wrote:
> 
> Eoin Woods is deluded in the article quoted below.
> 
> Almost all banks still do most of their processing in COBOL.
> 
> All new development in US banks with European branches is in C++ back end
> and many front ends (none in Eiffel that I know of).  This is partly due to
> C with its silly pointers not scaling well and mostly due to floating point
> problems at run time in C.

Could you elaborate on the way pointers in C restrict scalability?