Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:05:05 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources Message-ID: <1015.962564705@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:55:41 CDT." <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com>
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In message <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com>, Steve Ames writes: >On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:20:53PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: >> Can we agree to drop the 'traditionally' as a last resort >> argument to justify inertia? Compatibility, POLA, bloat, >> creeping featurism, etc. will do fine. I agree. >I've wondered for a while... what is POLA? Principle of Least Astonishment. Coined by Terry Lambert in 1993 or so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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