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1993-11-24 11:59:17
... using it still goes against "Rhys's Rule of Programming #256":

      Don't use someone else's code, unless the time necessary to
      write it yourself is going to be non-trivial...

This is a plausible rule, but you have to remember the footnote down
at the bottom of the page:

        * But do remember that only the most trivial facilities can
        be rewritten in a trivial amount of time.

Something on the order of TCL, despite its apparent simplicity, is not
going to be trivial to re-implement.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          
henry(_at_)zoo(_dot_)toronto(_dot_)edu   utzoo!henry

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