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Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:18:44 +0000
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chris@hollis-locke.com wrote:
> The general purpose library should do the most convenient thing for the
> majority of applications.

We disagree about that, especially for standardized libraries.
The general purpose library needs to be general purpose, not
have some particular preconceived purpose.