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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3290 comp.unix.bsd:11645 comp.org.sug:671 comp.os.386bsd.misc:85 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Message-ID: <C3n7p5.Hpn@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC References: <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> <C37x6s.88x@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1993Mar9.183158.7265@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 22:27:04 GMT Lines: 14 In article <1993Mar9.183158.7265@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >Crufty API's are better than >*no*< API's. This is the crux of our disagreement. I firmly believe that "No standard is better than a bad standard." and the corollary "Crufty APIs in any standard are evil.". There are a lot of people who believe in those two assertions (independent of whether those folks happen to think the proposed POSIX printing APIs are crufty). This is based on bad experiences being forced to use bad standards because they were standard.