From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline From: Charles Forsyth Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:30:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: ded6ffbc-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Nothing is as soul-draining as standards arguments. in the mid 80s i was on just one committee for a short time and when i left my dept i put the resulting many big boxes of papers in the dept library as a Warning to later generations. it was originally only intended to add four or five simple things (one type and a few functions) to an existing language (perhaps an afternoon to implement). it didn't end up that way.