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From: gus@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Reed College maturity
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 16:59:17 EST
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> Since then, we've seen at least a megabyte of piddly, useless programs and
> desk accessories written in Rascal.  It may be that Rascal itself is a 
> useful product, but the evidence so far is that its primary function is
> to consume net bandwidth for the aggrandizement of Reed students.
> 

This sounds more like an immature football rivalry than a posting from a
responsible person. Much of the stuff done in Rascal by Reed IS very high
quality software and should not be knocked. While nobody liked the VersaTerm
incident, this was an isolated case by as single perpetrator who could have
been at any university. This should not reflect on Reed. If you have any
personal gervances with anyone at Reed college, or if you have list
thausands of dollars using a program written at Reed because it bombed, then
plese state the specific problem. Usenet is a forum where all can share from
each other's efforts, and as such we are each expected to contribue in
positive ways. We all can appreciate the effort put into writing the many 
software packages placed on the net. Each is interesting in its own way and 
none should be knocked.

							Gus Fernandez