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Lew wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 04:38 AM, bugbear wrote:
>> Lew wrote:
>>
>>> Joe, if you want to discuss this with people who will take your question
>>> seriously, please feel free to do so. I apologize that I do not know how
>>> to answer your question, but I support your right to ask it. At least
>>> among us practical-minded folk.
>>>
>>
>> One might wonder why the comp hierarchy is split at all, following
>> your "logic"
>
> I guess that depends on one's commitment to helping fellow programmers.
> I believe if you don't want to answer the OP in this thread, that you're
> being insufficiently helpful. Shame on you if true, because that means
> you want to enforce some petty and arbitrary limit rather than help.

The notion that having a hierachy as opposed to a dustbin
on USENET is petty and arbitrary is merely your assertion, and one
with which I wholeheartedly disgaree.

   BugBear