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<ofa6db1740.0ef7c5b4-on85257c6a.004925c8-85257c6a.0049b...@us.ibm.com>,
on 01/24/2014
at 08:25 AM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> said:
>I don't disagree with your preference, but you are talking about
>changing thousands or millions of lines of code, and likely creating
>significant incompatibilities.
No, he is not talking about changing the behavior of existing code; he
is talking about changing the behavior of new code.
>The reality is that the choices lie between
>- changing nothing and
>- implementing what many customers (whether they voice their
>opinions on IBM-Main or not) have asked us for, namely to give them
>the "rope" and leave it to them to avoid doing something that
>"hurts".
That's a false dichotomy. The actual choice lies among
- Changing nothing
- Changing the behavior of the existing interface
- Adding a new interface while retaining the old one.
--
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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