I know what you mean, and perhaps its true for
VistA,but the "law of recapitulation" has been
discredited since the beginning of the twentieth
century.  A nit-picking point, I know.  But why it
continues to be repeated is beyone me--except that it
sounds so cool...

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/haeckel.html 
(see the last paragraph)

Kevin


--- "Richard G. DAVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mano,
> 
> I don't think an apology is needed for your mention
> of the 'warts' on
> DHCP/VistA.  Yours is an old classical song on the
> stage of VistA, a ballad
> born of a pain which isn't going to go away.
> 
> Remember, Mano, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
> So, also is the path to
> VistA a matter of reliving the past to a great
> extent.  Unfortunately the
> DNA in VistA has not preserved many things that were
> considered to be
> "one-time" artifacts (e. G. documentation for
> instance) of then current
> operations.
> 

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