Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri May 11 13:24:08 EDT 2001


In article <3AFB68E1.1C524FF2 at my.signature>, Greg Ewing wrote:
>"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
>> 
>>  Evolution works by almost always getting rid of bad ideas, but
>> it's doesn't always promote good ideas (and sometimes an asteroid
>> can wipe out a species that's had a very long and successful run!)
>
>Which just goes to show that not having built-in
>asteroid resistance is a bad idea. :-)

But not having it is so rarely a bad idea so rarely, and the
cost expenditure can't be amortized over such a long period of
time.

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