Who is going to make the changes then? Do you think the system is
perfect and there is nothing that can be made better?
Lucho
On Jun 7, 2006, at 7:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's the tricky bit: values of `slightly' in `slightly dirtier' vary
widely. My value might be epsilon or zero; others obviously have huge
tolerance for rubbish. I'm not convinced that the system has to be
made dirtier at all to attract users. Perhaps changes are necessary,
but I don't see virtue in dirt.
We need fresh blood.
I'm willing to try sacrificing goats but it hasn't work very well in
the past. ☺
I'm not sure what the answer is, but I think it's got more to do with
educating people and getting them to write more-portable code, at
least in the long term. Why are numerical programs dependent on
obscure gcc extensions?
