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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> I give up at this point. The SW people are welcome to write whatever
> they want, and I'll stop pretending that it affects me. The REST people
> have taught me a lot about the value of lots of nouns and few verbs, but
> at this point I find their definitions too constraining. Can I have
> some adjectives, please? I don't just want a pony, I want a red pony. I
> might even want the red pony.
Fine, but if you are not careful you will wind up with _The Red Pony_,
an excellent work of fiction by John Steinbeck. This has the advantage
that it will not crap under your Christmas tree.
--
Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan
of the Open Source movement. jcowan@reutershealth.com
--Lloyd A. Conway, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
amazon.com review http://www.reutershealth.com
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