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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:23:39 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:00:33 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> I don't want to fuel a "which compiler is best" flame war, but your degrading
>> references to Watcom do grate on me.  It seems to indicate that you are
>> uninformed and ignorant, which I know for a fact that you are not.
>
>I tend to agree.
>
>Damian, it doesn't do any good to anyone to make your personal opinions
>(to which you are entitled) stick out so blatantly.  The world isn't black
>and white, the real choices are hard to make; the only people who tell
>otherwise usually want to sell something.  So I suggest to make the
>``selling'' attitude in this document a bit less blunt. 

Noted.  Selling has been restricted to the "why" section, and
even then to a testimonial by Stefan Viljoen, and this is
scheduled to disappear into a "DJGPP testimonials" web page.

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