Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: POSIX bashing Message-ID: <127225@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 2 Apr 91 00:19:03 GMT References: <15621@smoke.brl.mil> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 14 In cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu writes: ?In bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: ? Has anyone implemented this design-by-committee? Does it actually work ? (other than in theory)? Is it performant? Is it useful? ? ?Is performant a real word? Is it necessary? Isn't the English ?vocabulary large enough already? Perhaps performant means "conformant" + "performs"? Barry has been reading the Dissociated Press. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane