A better self

[James Ashley]

In article <ahnh7h$77p$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:34:33 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>>should coding in lower levels be considered (on the other
>>hand, protectionist legislation shouldn't be considered even then,
>>but that's another issue:-).
>>
> What are you protecting with that "shouldn't"? ;-)

Perhaps that was a "generally, any sane person won't, but sometimes 
bueracracies insist upon insanity" kind of generalization?
> 
> ISTM everyone believes in protectionism, only differing in their
> ideas of what to protect and how to do it ;-)

ROFL...nicely said.  I've thought up a few responses to this, and I'm
curious about your answer to them all, but they all seem to whirl around
politics rather than software development, and, therefore, are even more
off-topic than I'm willing to get on this sort of forum.

Regards,
James