Incoming from Kai Grossjohann: > > Also, I find it interesting that RMS is not opposed to duplication of > code. Given the results, his position can't be all that stupid. Of > course, this contradicts with the teaching we all got in school, where > they told us that duplicating code leads us to programmer's hell. I'm > still trying to figure out where this contradiction comes from and how > to resolve it.
Maybe someone should ask him. I know that if I want something to perform some action, I'd like to call a black box that knows how to do that. Anytime something in that black box is found to be insufficient, I know to go to that black box to fix it. Everything that uses that box is updated when it is. With cut/copy + paste, I don't know where to go to add the fix(es), and I never would know whether I'd found them all. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]