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From: smosha@most.magec.com (Steve O'Shaughnessy)
Subject: Re: Please help with research
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In article <40g8t9$2kq@ornews.intel.com>, patrick_d_logan@ccm.jf.intel.com 
says...

>What criteria will be used to determine the "results"?
>
>And what conclusions do you propose to draw from the results?
>
>How can anyone propose or enter such a comparison without having any idea
>what is to be compared and what is to be concluded from the comparison?
>
>That is plain NUTS!!!
>
>-- 
Patrick,

You don't need to know this information, yet.  This is the original 
posters study, not yours.  Just because he hasn't informed you does not 
mean he does not have a plan.  When drug manufacturers perform studies on 
new drugs they don't inform the subject of how the new drug should work or 
 of the side affects.  This would skew the study.  Likewise, if you are 
studying computer languages in general you might have a lot of programers 
to do the same, trivial, task using a lot of languages.  No language does 
all things well.  Fast execution, fast compilation, fast design, ease of 
readibility, tool support, user base ... Just what makes a language good? 
 This study could be looking at any number of things.  But knowing that in 
 advance would be good programming but make for a tainted study.  Most of 
the programs we design do not strive for any one of these goals.  Rarely 
do we need the absolute fastest code or smallest size or ...  Sometimes we 
do, but usually just solving the problem at hand is sufficient.

If you don't believe this or feel, as others have told me, that he is just 
trying to get someone to do his homework for him, then why not just ignore 
the post?

Steve O
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