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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:38:02PM +0000, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
>On Monday 10 February 2003 15:21, John Cowan wrote:
>> Call it luck or hacks if you will, but generalized solutions consistently
>> have specialized ones for lunch. 
>
>That's not what I'm arguing against - I'm arguing against specialized 
>solutions being hacked into generalized ones.
>
>Much rather design them to be general in the first case.
>
>"Practical extraction and reporting language" - no more!

That's because you're using the wrong acronym.

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