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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Types
Message-ID: <5866@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 23:11:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 16 23:11:43 1987
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References: <7264@brl-adm.ARPA> <734@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> <293@osupyr.UUCP> <18598@sun.uucp> <393@bms-at.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <393@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
-NOTE, the best question to ask is not
-        "What features can we add"
-but,
-        "What features are  absolutely  essential  and  what  can
-        be  taken away?  Does a feature have a fundamental basis,
-        or is it arbitrary and a candidate for user definition?"

There is a rumor that at one point in the evolution of (Research)
UNIX, nobody was allowed to add a feature to the system without
simultaneously identifying one he could remove.  I don't know if
this is true, but it makes a good story.


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