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• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:06:42 -0500
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:00 pm, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Walter, as much as I respect you, this is like
> saying all rifles should be handmade:  in other
> words, no interchangeable parts.

The point is that even though *some* uses of rifles benefit from mass 
production, it is unreasonable to expect *all* rifle components to be 
interchangeable. After all, a Lee Enfield is great as a bush rifle, but I 
wouldn't want to use it if I was a sniper.

> The days of SGML-pre-ESIS were a nightmare because of that.

Sure, but you also know that even though a lot of good things were done with 
the ESIS, many/most *applications* didn't use it.

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