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Berend de Boer scripsit:
> I think this world would be a better place if we were very conservative
> in what we accept. If you aren't, the generators are sloppy as well,
> because faults are never detected. And if a big vendor makes a fault in
> its generation, you even run the danger of becoming it a standard.
"Conservative" in this context means "strictly conforming to a standard".
"Liberal" means "strictly conforming to one or more versions of a standard."
It does not necessarily mean "attempt to repair the garbage you get."
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
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