> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:59:20PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly:
> >  I was mildly offended by that. <Rant about computing theory and economics
> > suppressed> Using Moore's LAW that computer power doubles every 18 months,
> > a compile now taking 12 minutes would have taken 2 months, 26 days in
> > 1984.

Not to mention the time to spend on the implemenation of a C++ compiler
which didn't exist at that point of time ;-)

Andre'

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