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Joseph Gwinn writes:
> And the likelihood is that software written (at great expense) to
> prepare for what will be in 30 years from now will be a dead loss,
> outmaneuvered by technological and scientific progress.
I would never attempt that.
My point is more that you get a lot of mileage out of the
KISS principle when it comes to designing standards and APIs.
And
"86400 seconds per day"
is a lot more KISS than
"86400±1 seconds per day"
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