On Aug 21, 2007, at 23:27 , Hugh Perkins wrote:
Hmmm, that's interesting. I'd never considered lack of typing to be a good thing for system robustness before!
The old watchphrase (before Netscape and Microsoft abused it beyond anyone's expectation) for Internet protocols was "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send"; same idea.
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