>>>Just calculate the total time the twenty-some of us have spent reading and writing in your crappy coder threads, and compare that with the cumulative time wasted on not using mdot where it would shaved off some milliseconds.
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>Not just this subject, but thousands like it.
>Way back in main frame days I took over the management of a fairly large group of programmers who spent a lot of time debating the comparative virtues of COBOL vs PL/1.
>I took some zealots from each side, formed a committee and asked them to show me how the choice of either side would yield more benefits in time than the time spent arguing. If they couldn't they had to choose one.
>The committee came back and told me to use COBOL.
>Lesson learned - when you have zealots put them on a committee.

Once the three owners of the company had separate ideas on where the product should go. There was a sort of stalemate between them, and I suggested that we just lock them in a room and let them out when they come to a common conclusion. The guys just looked at me pitifully and said "we did that already, and the conclusion was they each stick to their own ideas like before".