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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Design choice is C preprocessor
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:40:58 GMT

Andrey A Mirtchovski wrote:
>  i am seriously considering putting two screenshots of: C++ auto generated
>  C++ code for VC++ 6.0 (MFC) vs any random source file from plan9 on a web
>  page. the heading will be "see what you succumb to by going to the
>  microsoft camp"...

That would be kinda dumb, since auto generated code always looks
crappy compared to manually generated code.  I was once a heavy
Ratfor user, and its Fortran output was ugly, but so what?