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From: tim@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: The use of '-type'
Message-ID: <518@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 14:20:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: unisoft.518
Posted: Sat Jul 27 14:20:20 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 04:03:37 EDT
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Reply-To: tim@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Organization: UniSoft Systems, Berkeley
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Summary: 

In article <24@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes:
>Many of society's rules are purely arbitrary, but as Dr. Fred Brooks
>says about software engineering, "Almost any systematic set of rules
>is more effective than having no plan at all."
>
>Why bother speaking the same language everyone else speaks?  Why not
>just invent your own language, and then look for a group that speaks it?
>:-)
>	Frank Silbermann

Frank, are you implying that society's rules are systematic?  That
would be the joke of the century.

					- Tim