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Subject: Re: [9fans] Sleep-complexity
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Mon,  9 May 2005 23:46:29 +0100
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>>I don't know what the *right thing* is but shipping code that
>>compiles but doesn't work ain't it.

i also looked at the most up-to-date versions of several utilities
and they do not, in fact, do the `right thing'.

i mentioned `incompatibility libraries'?  well, there's a technique with
wider scope.  that's where you get everyone to change their programs to
leave things in nearly the same shape (except perhaps for bugs introduced thereby).
(Governments are prone to this.)

``Something must be done.  This is something.  Therefore we must do it.'' -- Yes, Prime Minister