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Re: low tech MI
From alan@curry.epilogue.com Tue Apr 23 01:50 EDT 1996
...
True. I thought about mentioning that when I composed my previous message,
but I decided that since that was primarily a -performance- problem, and I
couldn't imagine anybody arguing that accessing the slots of a condition
had to be single-memory-reference fast, I could get away with not
mentioning it. Law number one of electronic mail design discussions must
be:
Anything you decide not to mention in a message because it seems like it
would just complicate your exposition, -will- be mentioned by somebody
else in a follow-up message.
A good law, indeed. Maybe a partial solution is to borrow a phrase from real
lawyers and append to every message:
The entire previous content of the Internet is hereby
incorporated by reference.
Even more aggressive would be:
The entire future content of the Internet is hereby
incorporated by reference.
And, of course, thanks to WWW, this can be achieved for all practical
purposes by tacking on a coupe of well-chosen URL's, say to Lycos and Yahoo.
--Guy