henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (01/16/89)
In article <225800108@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Things like NOS are why I WANT it IN THE STANDARD!!! If you only get >a line at a time YOU CAN'T, ABSOLUTELY CAN'T write decent software. Odd, I can recall a good bit of decent software which doesn't use this feature... More to the point, filling a standard with lots of Good Things which you are sure everybody ought to be required to implement is a good way to have your standard shelved and ignored. Standards are useful only if they are widely accepted. They will be widely accepted only if they are not too painful to implement on existing systems. -- "God willing, we will return." | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology -Eugene Cernan, the Moon, 1972 | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu