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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Sometimes code is still running for 15 years because it's so wonderful
> nobody has been able to come up with anything better.  Sometimes it's
> because nobody knows how it works anymore and everybody is afraid to
> touch it :-)

And sometimes, both...

ChrisA