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From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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`nightmare' is a politer term than I'd use.  `hideous botch' comes to
mind.  To quote Doug McIroy (quoted in The Hideous Name) in a related
context:

	Some standards are sound and indispensable; some simply celebrate
	bureaucratic littleness of mind.  A harvest of gimmicks to save
	appearances within the standard has grown up, then gimmicks to save
	the appearances within the appearances.  You know how each one got
	there: an overnight hack to paste another tumor onto a wild cancerous
	growth.  [...] But now that it all ``works'' =E2=80=94 at least for the =
strong
	of stomach =E2=80=94 the tumors themselves are being standardized.