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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
[...]
> Lots of people have been telling Alla to take it slowly, but these are 
> very often the same people who are also raising all the complications 
> that a fully robust commercial-quality product must deal with. It would 
> be a kindness to the student if we could allow her to proceed at the 
> slower pace that we keep urging her to adopt.

I agree, and I've been guilty of that myself.  I've at least tried to
indicate which considerations that can be skipped for now, and I'll try
even harder to do that if I fail to resist the temptation to go off on
yet another tangent.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"