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Subject: Re: Throwing one away
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Date: Wed, 28-May-86 10:18:00 EDT
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/* Written 9:40 pm May 15, 1986 by Dave-Platt%LADC@HI-MULTICS.arpa in net.lang.c */
I believe your "It has also been said..." can be attributed to Donald
Knuth;  if I remember correctly, his original wording was "Plan on
throwing one away, because you will anyhow."
/* End of text from net.lang.c */

Doubtless a flood of corrections will appear, but...it was Fred Brooks, in
*The Mythical Man-Month*.  "Plan on throwing one away, because you will
anyhow.  The only question is whether you will deliver the throwaway to
your customers." is as near as I can reproduce it from memory.

					James Jones