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Berend de Boer scripsit: > I think this world would be a better place if we were very conservative > in what we accept. If you aren't, the generators are sloppy as well, > because faults are never detected. And if a big vendor makes a fault in > its generation, you even run the danger of becoming it a standard. "Conservative" in this context means "strictly conforming to a standard". "Liberal" means "strictly conforming to one or more versions of a standard." It does not necessarily mean "attempt to repair the garbage you get." -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
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