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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:09:57 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
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Noel Chiappa scripsit:

> I just gave several good reasons why large programs (well, technically,
> systems) are bad. Are you saying those reasons are fallacious?

No, they are simply costs.  Like all costs, the idea is not to eliminate
them tout court, but to decide whether they are worth paying for what
you get.  Poverty can have a very high marginal cost.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
"Hacking is the true football."  --F.W. Campbell (1863) in response to a
successful attempt to ban shin-kicking from soccer.  Today, it's biting.