> Why oh why do the so-called "professional" C/C++
Easy, they are writing C/C++.
Now here is a question, why oh why do you time your macros and blame it on MASM. Why oh why don't you impose the same macros on the Watcom derivatives.
Why oh why are you so desperately trying to find the characteristics of a visual garbage generator when you could easily find something that could generate a 1 gig Hello World /