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From: Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why use C++?
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On 16/08/2011 11:58, in article 17sfxzivd6ba0.1lpjrmelcfuoa$.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:23:48 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> Is changing only the representation of types, not the types,
>> necessarily premature optimization?
> 
> The answer depends on the time the change is made. "Premature" in its
> original meaning (Knuth) means: during design, before functional
> requirements are met.

There are important cases in which the representation of types is an
essential part of the functional requirement. For example, writing a
bit-accurate emulator for an existing computer architecture; or processing
data generated by a legacy non-Ada system.

These cases are not the most common, but they are also not the ignorable
trivia you claim them to be.

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Bill Findlay
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