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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: intolerably stupid (was Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.025919.9582@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 02:59:19 GMT
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rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:

>I'm sorry, but spec'ing and standardizing something this big, this radical
>a change, before implementing (i.e., prototyping) and actually using it is
>just too stupid an idea to be tolerated.

	I believe that if you look around you, you'll find that the
intolerable is being tolerated and even supported all over the place. :-P

	Is pre-standardizing worse than pre-optimizing, or is it a
solution to pre-optimizing? Set the design flaws in concrete and then
you don't *HAVE* to fix them ever. Hmmm... Maybe that's the dodge. If
it's pre-standardized, you don't have to worry about getting it right.

mjr.