In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/17/2006
at 07:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The absence of support to exploit a new facility by certain
>applications, or even a majority of applications, should not be used
>as an excuse to never provide new functions.
But it is a reason to take care in *how* the new function is provided.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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