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From: bvs@BitBlocks.COM (Bakul Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.062418.29668@BitBlocks.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 91 06:24:18 GMT
References: <70568@brunix.UUCP> <1991Apr3.123809.29779@athena.mit.edu> <681@adpplz.UUCP>
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In article <681@adpplz.UUCP> martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes:
| In <1991Apr3.123809.29779@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
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| >In article <70568@brunix.UUCP>, cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
| >|> The ideal solution would be a reasonably-standard, dynamically linkable
| >|> input library, so you could link to whatever interface you preferred.
|
| >  Yet another example of Unix doing now what Multics did long ago, and people
| >thinking it's a wonderful new innovation.
|
| >  "Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." :-)
|
| Those who learn from history get big bucks for repeating it.

No, no, no!  The usenet version is quite different:

``Those who think they have learned from history _insist_ on
  repeating it to the net.''

And a corollary:

``Those who know such people are doomed to listen them repeat it.''

:-)