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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:41:34 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
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well put sir, and i have a small kitchen.

brucee

On 1/19/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
> Standards are for when there are too many cooks in the kitchen.  By
> their very nature they have to compromise.
> Give me the work of a standards committee before the the work of a
> single idiot; but most of all give me the work of a brilliant expert
> before that of the committee.  And for God's sake, please don't turn
> my expert into an idiot by throwing him onto a committee!
>
> Paul
>
> On 17-Jan-06, at 10:11 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:
>
> > standards are weird.  i wish someone would standardize standards.
> > oh no that would involve a committee of uninformed experts.
> >
> > i have never had a problem with kenc, both for user and kernel stuff.
> > but i don't use putchar() or some other recalcitrant macro.
> >
> > the proof is in the pudding.
> >
> > brucee
> >
> > On 1/18/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 17-Jan-06, at 9:38 PM, Simon Williams wrote:
> >>
> >>> The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
> >>> from
> >>> Cheers
> >>>        Simon ( who cant remember who said this first )
> >>
> >> Andy Tannenbaum, wasn't it?
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
>
>