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To: JC Jaros who wrote (49324)	9/15/2000 12:13:30 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

JC, JC - surely you are not basing this tirade on an article from The Register!! Have we sunk that low? The same article claims that NT was developed from OS/2 code and cites the common error messages - when all of us old timers know that in fact NT was derived from an OS called MICA which was a part of Dave Cutler's "PRISM" project, a 64 bit design which was killed by Ken Olsen only to be resurrected as the Alpha after Cutler left. The OS/2 error messages, and the "cool" header files, come from that famous (and valuable) process outlined so nicely in the book you turned me on to, The Unix Philosophy. If we have an error handling subsystem that works, why write another one, except for ego and NIH? If there were good garbage collection routines in COOL, or any of a number of functions which would also be useful in C#, why write new ones, since COOL was already a clean-room design? I'll revoke your credentials to the Unix Guru club if you start to complain about code re-use!!

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