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• From: Mike Haarman <mhaarma@s...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:11:48 -0500 (CDT)
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Mike Champion wrote:

> and refactor it.  Or better yet, since the notion of interoperable
> API standards is so unfashionable these days, let a hundred
> refactorizations of DOM/JDOM/dom4j/proprietary APIs bloom,
> create an ecology of competing codes, and let Father Darwin sort
> them out.

You mean send them to the re-education farms?  Just doing my part to nip
this meme in the bud.  Ben says it well:

http://rss.benhammersley.com/archives/001302.html

It's too bad, really.  Such a nice turn of phrase.  And so well spoken.

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Mike Haarman
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