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From: geoff@x.bell-labs.com
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ugrading edition 2 graphics to edition 3
Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2000 16:19:05 -0400
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There's reinvention and there's reimplementation, as advocated by
forsyth in `more taste, less greed: sending Unix to the fat farm'
(ftp://ftp.cs.york.ac.uk/papers/taste.ps.Z).  If the original wheel
was square or triangular, it's well worth reimplementing it, and you
usually learn something along the way.