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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: why has Cray dropped CPP support from cf77?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:22:56 GMT
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
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>I think RBJ is being rather cavalier in his "let's break the old code"
>approach.  What are you, a standards committee member or something? :-)

Well, this is about to expire, so I had better comment on it.

I generally would rather be bitten by progress than by stagnation.
The former is more painful to novices, the latter to wizards.

I forget exactly what I said. The gist of it was something like
let's warn them first, them then break it.
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