Jerry Pournelle's column is the main reason I continue to subscribe to BYTE. I appreciate the way he explains things without hammering the reader with benchmark test results and an alphabet soup of acronyms. For instance, his description of the DOS and Windows capability in OS/2 (March) somehow gets to the truth of the matter, where any number of detailed benchmark tests simply fail. I am reminded of a wise old friend who once said, "There's no substitute for intelligence!" Pournelle captures the essence of what is important and gives a decent idea of what works and what doesn't. It's always a good read.
Richard Hodges
Los Angeles, CA
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Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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