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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

> Yes, this is perfectly natural.  In the same way, a bicycle factory
> should use bicycles to deliver new bicycles to bicycle shops, and car
> factories should use cars to transport new cars around.
>
> In other words, it is complete bollocks.

Quite true, and anyone who disagrees should be forced to write a
Fortran77 compiler in Fortran77.