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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 06:07:49 GMT
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In article <5883:Feb102:05:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> (Dan Bernstein) burps:
>In article <21548@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>> To rephrase: ... you are using poor programming techniques. No program
>> should make multiple passes over a disk file when it could accomplish its
>> task with a single pass with hardly any effort on the programmer's part.
>
>If you spent a minute putting your priorities into order you'd realize
>that this is an entirely ridiculous generalization.

Well, I am sure you would know about ridiculous generalizations. Those
were your own words plus a trivial meaning-preserving transformation.

keep up the cyclically self-disputing silliness.

oz