The view expressed in the unattributed snippet: Macros are only useful as IBM has used them. Other than that, macros have no value. is, in a Pickwickian but important sense, at once obscene and without redeeming technical merit. Whoever wrote/posted it did of course have every right to do so, and that right must be protected, folded into the right to talk nonsense in general. There is, however, no obligation to take nonsense seriously; and it is almost always unwise to do so. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
