Like everyone else I had some early troubles with PDSEs, but I expected them, and I now find PDSEs less problematic (for the usual reasons) than PDSs.
Long experience and its attendant decrepitude confer some [very] few advantages, one of which is the expectation that problems can and will be resolved. The classical deficiencies of PDSs are not much talked about by those who avoid PDSEs. They are accustomed to the deficiencies of the old and they want the new to behave much like the old, perhaps with a fillip or two of---but not too much---innovation. I have almost no sympathy with these notions and less with the rhetorical device of waving the bloody shirt; but I do recognize that my differences with reactionary, risk-averse people are visceral, not moral. John Gilmore, Ashland, Ma 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
