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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
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Date: 20 Sep 90 22:32:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM's message of 20 Sep 90 00:52:31 GMT

In article <15864@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

   >One of the reasons why we're reluctant to change our patch scheme is pure
   >spleen against people who appear to be blindly prejudiced against it, as
   >shown by the silly reasons they advance.

   Hmm... ad hominem software engineering.  Surely its own reward...

Only argument that I have against the patch scheme is that the 
files that contain the patches don't sort in date order.  The
Ohio State way of naming the same files (900801 instead of 01-Aug-90)
works much better that way.

A few hard links is all you'd need.

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
moderator, comp.archives