Re: [xml-dev] Painful USA Today article (was RE: [xml-dev] ANN: R ESTTutorial)

[Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>]

"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com> wrote:

| Now why not turn that feature off given the disasters created 
| by leaving it on?

Because the entire point of a non-feature is to have it turned on by
default.  This maximizes the propagation of stupidity.

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