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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Short Hello World
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Date: 22 May 91 15:25:01 GMT
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jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward) writes:
>riley@THEORY.TC.CORNELL.EDU (Daniel S. Riley) writes:
>
>>What should CBM do with the LVOs for deleted functions?
>
>>I'd be in favor of CBM eventually deleting unused functions.  I'd be
>>opposed to CBM reusing those LVOs--reassigning LVOs would just lead to
>>massive confusion--in which case deleted functions would continue to
>>take up some space in the jump tables.
>
>We're missing the point here totally...  I've heard it preached up and down
>here on the net:  'Follow the rules!  If you follow the rules you won't get
>burned'.  So now what do we want to do?  Trash all of the routines that we
>shouldn't be using today, but were perfectly legal in yesteryear. Is this
>the ultimate form of corporate hippocracy, or am I missing something?
>Someone please enlighten me.

It's called evolution.  you may see it as hipocracy, but the point is not that
software won't just suddenly break.  if you follow the rules, everything is
GUARANTEED to work for at LEAST one OS upgrade.  one OS upgrade is all you
should need to fix whatever has become obsolete.  following the rules is not
so that your program will work until the end of time, but it does mean that it
won't break on the next release of the os.

>
>>-Dan Riley (riley@theory.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
>>-Wilson Lab, Cornell University
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