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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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> pretty hard to do for the great majority of C++ (or Ada for that matter)
> programmers who have not the slightest awareness of machine language or
> its implications.

so since some programmers are imperfect,
none of them should get nice sharp tools?  please, no!

C/C++, at least, have never shied from enough-rope features.

regards, mark hahn.