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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/09/01
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Patrick said

<<PS.  Perhaps I should mention that I'm maintaining and upgrading
legacy code.  That's one main reason I spend so much time on
memory issues--the original programmer wasn't too concerned
with them.>>

OK, but then that says nothing about the inherent importance of this
particular issue. If you were working on code where an incompetent
original programmer had written all their floating-point formulae
thinking that real arithmetic was possible on machines, you might
be spending 40-50% of your time on that, but it does not prove
that as a generalization, this is an important general issue!