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The power of Lists
Keith Wright
(15 Aug 2005 03:14 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Jens Axel Søgaard
(15 Aug 2005 20:43 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Keith Wright
(16 Aug 2005 04:16 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Michael Sperber
(16 Aug 2005 06:19 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Andre van Tonder
(19 Aug 2005 13:35 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists Michael Sperber (20 Aug 2005 07:00 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Andre van Tonder
(20 Aug 2005 15:28 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists
Andre van Tonder
(22 Aug 2005 14:30 UTC)
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Re: The power of Lists Michael Sperber 20 Aug 2005 07:00 UTC
Andre van Tonder <xxxxxx@now.het.brown.edu> writes: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Michael Sperber wrote: > >> Andre has shown that the issue can be worked around. This has both >> benefits of convenience and quite substantial cost. We're having an >> argument over whether the cost is worth the convenience. I can see >> why someone would argue that the convenience is worth it. I don't >> agree. > > I think the cost is worth it. It is a one-time burden on the implementor that > gives significant (in my experience) convenience to users in perpetuity. The > cost is bounded but the savings over all user programs is potentially infinite. The same could be said for the opposite direction :-) -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla