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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing
Message-ID: <1993Mar10.025832.17665@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 93 02:58:32 GMT
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In article <C3n7p5.Hpn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>In article <1993Mar9.183158.7265@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>Crufty API's are better than >*no*< API's.
>
> This is the crux of our disagreement.
>
> I firmly believe that "No standard is better than a bad standard."
>and the corollary "Crufty APIs in any standard are evil.". There are
>a lot of people who believe in those two assertions (independent of
>whether those folks happen to think the proposed POSIX printing APIs
>are crufty). This is based on bad experiences being forced to use
>bad standards because they were standard.
I still maintain that anything that works is better than anything that
doesn't. I have to agree that this is where we disagree. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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