And this is new how? :-)

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:

> This thread has exhausted itself.  We are rehashing trivia.  I do not
> need to be reminded of the capacity of a halfword, signed or unsigned;
> and Kevin can defend his views himself if he wants to bother to do so.
>
> For what it may be worth, I judge that the new facility is a happy
> compromise of very different notions of what is important.
>
> I have perverse moments in which I should be delighted to see "code
> that has worked for decades" broken.  Any such code should have been
> reconsidered and in most cases rewritten long before now.
> Precipitate change needs to be avoided, but this platform should not
> be hostage to decisions taken in the remote past.
>
> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
>
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