Re: [9fans] Brdline

[Charles Forsyth]

> Nothing is as  soul-draining as standards arguments.

in the mid 80s i was on just one committee for a short time and when i left
my dept i put the resulting many big boxes of papers in the dept library
as a Warning to later generations.  it was originally only intended to
add four or five simple things (one type and a few functions) to an
existing language (perhaps an afternoon to implement).
it didn't end up that way.