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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
>
> In response to strictures from Shane Ginnane, Tom Grieve writes:
>
> > OK, that's fair enough, graceful failure with meaningful error
> >messages is absolutely desirable.
>
> and I will venture the further comment that it is not just
> "absolutely desirable" but essential.
>
> In the past I have suggested that concerns expressed by Shane
> and others about the uses that were likely to be made of
> above-the-bar storage were exaggerated. I supposed that
> incompetents would find using it intimidating and avoid doing
> so, at least for some time; and I was quite wrong.
Indeed. Q: "Why do you climb the mountain?" A: "Because it is
there."
-jc-
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