stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[Bill Baxter]

James Dennett wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:

> It might be harsh, but not entirely unjustified, to say
> that the "conventional wisdom" of many communities of
> programmers is a long, long way from being wise.  As
> the community behind a language grows larger, there is
> a natural tendency for it not to have some a density
> of experts; if D amasses a million users it's a safe
> bet than most of them won't be as sharp as the average
> D user is today.

I think there is a tendency to assume that APIs and languages which have 
(A) been around a long time and
(B) been used by millions of people
will probably be close to optimal.  It just makes sense that that would 
be the case.  Unfortunately, it's all too often just not true.

--bb