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Re: Blueberry is not "closed" (was: Closing Blueberry)



7/24/01 12:56:44 AM, Joel Rees <rees@server.mediafusion.co.jp> wrote:

>The practical mathematician in me wonders why such a thing should require
>pretense. <observation>While it is true that good design often wears
>well</observation>, <axiom>no artifact of mortal beings can hope to undure
                                                                     ^^^^^^ 
>long unchanged</axiom>.

This strikes me as a rather useful, if accidentally created, neologism and in fact the axiom could be 
rewritten as <axiom>any artifact of mortal beings will undure rather than endure</axiom>.