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From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
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 > You can claim that ugly kernels beget ugly code, and
 > I would agree. Claiming that ugly kernels beget ugly applications
 > is going too far. There are too many counterexamples.

There are _some_ counterexamples,
but they are far outweighed by the examples,
both in number and lines of code.

>Most users in the world don't see the code, and don't care
>about it's uglyness. They care whether something works and is
>easy to use.
>
Me too (he said, typing mail into Thunderbird, canceling the alarm on 
his PalmPhone ...),
but I still maintain that, given better foundations, we'd get more 
better stuff,.

I'd better get back to hacking Postfix configs ...

    DaveL.