Warner Losh said: >> Yes. I've never been able to understand why facing the guts of this problem >> has been evaded. Its a great computer-science project - it should be fun! > > The problem stems not because one person can't climb the complexity hill to > get it right: several have. The problem comes more from the large numbers of > people in my industry that have failed to climb the complexity hill due to > apathy, incompetence or both.
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