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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposal to not change time_t
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.02.9808201953070.25117-100000@ascetic.portal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808202023050.11516-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:

> Some banks.  They don't understand that computer that's in the basement,
> but it worked in grand-dad's time, and it's still cranking!  They won't
> even dare look at it until it breaks.

And they're probably quite right, too. In my experience, the quickest
way to make a working program fail is to let some programmers at it.

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite mist, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.


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