[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7279) Macro optimizations

["rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Arnstein Lindgard wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7279 >
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> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:44:01 -0800 rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> I wrote:
> 
>>>1. It's pretty. Nice colors. Less brackets. No backslashes.
>>>2. No need to maintain two forms of a function for type checking.
>>>3. We can add local variables wantonly, without breaking POSIX or
>>>   bloating the interface.
> 
> You wrote:
> 
>>It is fascinating that none of the above refer to performance concerns
>>or any technical improvement to the "C" code. They all seem suspiciously
>>like religious considerations
> 
> Yes, it is fascinating. It demonstrates that you can trump pure
> technical arguments with political ones, if you are inclined to do
> so. Once you've learned to do it, you have a new *tool* for technical
> as well as political debates.


When a system *allows* politics and religion to trump technical reality
one tends to get backwards regimes like in Iran with lots of energy
wasted in unrest and attempts to replace the religious despot of the
moment with one more in keeping with ones own desires.

Not, I think a great model for the Freeciv maintainers to be so enamoured
of, methinks.


Cheers,
RossW
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