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From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Idempotence of S3
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.213322.18417@pa.dec.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 21:33:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.165044.21308@csl.dl.nec.com> ylee@csl.dl.nec.com said:
# Why don't the basic principles of good programming
# apply in sendmail.cf?  It IS programming, isn't it?

No.  It is configuration.  Like TECO, you can do Towers of Hanoi in
sendmail.cf if you are patient enough.  But there are better languages
if programming is your goal, and the tool you are misusing will suck
the blood of every maintainer who follows you.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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